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How is the process of digestion in ruminants different from humans?

Important Questions on Nutrition in Animals

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What is meant by chewing cud?
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What is meant by term “rumination”? Name any two ruminants.
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Tigers and lions chew the cud.
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Can we survive only on raw, leafy vegetables/grass? Discuss.
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What are ruminants? Which of the following are ruminants?
Fish, Amoeba, Cow, Humans, Dogs, Sheep, Buffalo, Deer, Goat, Giraffe
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Explain the term ‘chewing the cud'.
 
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How do the grass-eating animals digest cellulose?
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What does 'chewing the cud' mean?
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Describe with the help of labelled diagrams, how feeding and digestion in Amoeba takes place?
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Define rumination.

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Write one similarity and one difference between the nutrition in Amoeba and human being.
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How does Amoeba take in (ingest) the food? From which part of the body undigested food is egested in Amoeba?
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What is meant by rumination?
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Name the type of carbohydrate that can be digested by ruminants but not by humans. Give the reason also.
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The Amoeba shows _____ mode of nutrition.    
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Can we survive only on grass & raw leafy vegetables? Give reason for your answer.
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How is ruminant’s stomach different from humans?
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Describe the process of digestion in ruminants.
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Is food vacuole in Amoeba similar to the small intestine of human beings. How?
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Explain how ruminants digest their food. How is their digestion process different from the digestion in humans?