Nutrition in Living Organisms Science - Nutrition in Living Organisms

Carbohydrates are made up of carbon, hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen.

Phloem transports the food from leaves to other parts of the plant.

Carbondixode is given out during the process of photosynthesis.

Decomposers obtain their food from living organisms.

The chloroplasts present in the leaves contain chlorophyll.

Why does the pitcher plant feed on insects even though it produces food by photosynthesis?

Write the uses of yeast and mushrooms.

Butterflies have a long tube-like proboscis.

Insectivorous plants are attractively coloured.

Cuscuta is a total parasite while Loranthus is a partial parasite.

Decomposers are important for the ecosystem

Tapeworm is an endoparasite.

How do plants produce their own food?

Why does the pitcher plant feed on insects even though it produces food by photosynthesis?

Write the uses of yeast and mushrooms.

Classify the animals according to the type of food they eat.
microbes, vulture, monkey, tiger, lion, goat, cow, buffalo, crow, hyena, human, chimpanzee

What are called saprophytic plants? Give Examples.

Write about Drosera burmanii.

What is symbiotic nutrition? Give one example of it.

Name the micro-organisms which help in biological fixation of nitrogen. How?

How does ingestion occur in unicellular animals like amoeba?

1.Which part of the loranthus plant carries out photosynthesis?
2.From where do they obtain minerals and water?
3.Why is loranthus known as a partially parasitic plant?

Why is plant food not produced in any other parts of the plant except the green ones?

What damage or harm do ectoparasitic and endoparasitic animals cause?

The number of heterotrophs found in desert regions is smaller. However, they are found in greater numbers in the sea. Why is this so?

Observe the diagram and answer the following questions.

1.What is shown in the picture?
2.What is the importance of these types of plants?
3.What is the process called?
4.Explain the process.

Observe the diagram and answer the following questions.

1.Name the process shown in the picture.
2.Which type of plants use the above process for their nutrition?
3.What is the pigment in the leaf that helps in the above process?
4.Give the chemical equation of the above process?
5.What is the importance of this process to living things?

Write the role of different nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, Iron, manganese and zinc and effects of their deficiency on plants.