Draw a diagram of human alimentary canal and label on it: Oesophagus, Gallbladder, Liver and Pancreas.
Explain the statement, ‘Bile does not contain any enzyme but it is essential for digestion.’
CBSE DELHI - SET 1 2009
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Bile is a digestive juice secreted by the liver. Although it does not contain any digestive enzymes, it plays an important role in the digestion of fats. Bile juice has bile pigments such as bilirubin and biliverdin. These break down large fat globules into smaller globules so that the pancreatic enzymes can easily act on them. This process is known as emulsification of fats. Bile juice also makes the medium alkaline deu to presense of $NaHCO _3$ and also activate lipase.
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Some sugar solution is taken in a test-tube and a little of substance X in powder form is added to it. The mouth of test - tube is closed with a cork and allowed to stand for sometime. On opening the cork, a characteristic smell of substance Y is obtained and a gas Z is also observed to be formed. The gas Z extinguishes a burning matchstick.
What could be X, Y and Z?
What is the process of converting sugar into substance Y by the action of X known as?
What type of respiration is exhibited by X in the above process?
The partially digested food coming from the stomach of a person enters a long and narrow organ A in his body. The organ A receives the secretion of two glands: liver and pancreas. Liver secretes a greenish - yellow liquid B which is normally stored in the organ C. Pancreas secretes pancreatic juice which contains three digestive enzymes D, E and F. The intestinal juice completes the process of digestion of food. The inner wall of organ A has millions of tiny finger - like projections G which help in the rapid absorption of digested food into blood stream. The undigested part of food then passes into wider tube H which absorbs most of the water from undigested food. The last part of tube H called I stores this undigested food (or waste) for some time. The undigested food is then passed out though opening J as faeces in the process known as K.
Name the organ A.
Name liquid B and organ C.
What are the digestive enzymes D, E and F?
Name the projections G present on the inner wall of organ A.