Science : Ch 06 – Life Processes

The process of digestion begins in the mouth. The mouth contains a digestive enzyme, salivary amylase. This enzyme breaks the starch molecules in the food, into maltose. The absence of amylase in the saliva thus afects the breakdown of starch into simpler sugar molecules.

Valves prevent backward fow of blood as they are located at each end of two ventricles and act as one way inlet.

The lime water turns milky on passing carbon dioxide gas into it due to formation of insoluble calcium carbonate. When the exhaled air rich in carbon dioxide is blown from mouth into test tube, it reacts with lime water (calcium hydroxide) to produce calcium carbonate and water

Digestion of food starts in mouth by salivary amylase. From here it enters into the stomach via oesophagus The simpler substances formed by chemical digestion are then absorbed by small intestinal villi.

During inhalation, the ribs move out and the diaphragm fattens. As a result, the surface area for gaseous exchange increases. The site for gaseous exchange in the lungs are alveoli._x000D_During inhalation, ribs move inward and diaphragm is raised_x000D_In the alveoli, exchange of gases takes place i.e. oxygen form alveolar air difuses into blood and carbon dioxide from blood into alveolar air._x000D_Haemoglobin has greater aǝinity f or carbon dioxide than oxygen_x000D_Alveoli increases surface area for exchange of gase

The oxygen during photosynthesis comes from split water.

Fishes have only two chambers to their hearts, and the blood is pumped to the gills, is oxygenated there, and passes directly to the rest of the body. Thus, blood goes only once through the heart in the fsh during one cycle of passage through the body.

They convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates in the absence of sunlight Explanation: Autotrophs obtain the required carbon and energy requirements from carbon dioxide and Sunlight. They combine carbon dioxide and water to form carbohydrates

The blood leaving the tissues becomes richer in carbon dioxide. When the oxygenated blood passes through the capillaries of the tissue.