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Life processes are the basic functions performed by a living organism an individual
Life processes are the basic functions performed by a living organism an individual living
organism to maintain life
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Autotrophic nutrition means that an organism is capable of producing its
own food just like green plants and some bacteria
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Photosynthesis is a process
responsible for all life on the planet and photosynthesis is the base of life on Earth
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Our consumers including us and herbivorous animals and all other carnivores
can not survive without a plants
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A pair of kidney shaped or bean shaped
cells guarded by kidney-shaped or bean-shaped cells, which we call the guard cells
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intake of water from their neighboring cells, they swell up and they just
open up like that right even when we are happy, we like to open up that way
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THe names of the steps ingestion digestion absorption, absorption, assimilation assimilation
ejection are in fact the five steps involved in holzoic nutrition
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We will be having a doubt
session after every chapter
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Our Digestive system is comprised of one long tube called the alimentary canal in casual
language we call it the gut
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The epiglottis is
there to prevent the entry of your food into the trachea while you eat normally
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That is a natural reflex by which your body is trying
to expel out the extra food that by chance entered into the wrong tract
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The long string of beads is
getting broken up into smaller or shorter strings of beads and eventually at the end of
digestion
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Once
your food has been churned well by your teeth and saliva and moistened
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There are three major secretions for
gastric glands each with their own functions
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The liver is the largest gland in your
body
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Bile helps in emulsification of fats and breaks down complex oily granules

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