Types of Nutrition in Animals

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Types of Nutrition in Animals: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as scavenging, nutrition in amoebae, carnivores, classification of animals based on food habits, omnivores, etc.

Important Questions on Types of Nutrition in Animals

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Give two examples of the saprozoic mode of nutrition.

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Choose an endoparasitic animal that lives inside its host.

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Hookworms are endoparasites that live outside their host.

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What is endoparasitic nutrition?

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Give two examples of endoparasitic nutrition animals.

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Give two examples of ectoparasitic animals.

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Define ectoparasitic nutrition.

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Roundworms are examples of ectoparasites.

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Saprozoic animals get their nutrition from dead and decaying matter.

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Choose an ectoparasite animal from the given options.

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The mode of nutrition in spiders is

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Saprozoic animals cannot digest solid food material.

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The A, B and C are three living organisms. The organism A is a unicellular fungus which can live without air. It is used in the commercial production of an organic compound P from molasses. The organism B is a unicellular animal which lives in water and feeds and moves by using pseudopodia. It breathes through an organelle Q. The organism C is a tiny animal which acts as a carrier of the malarial parasite. It breathes and respires through a kind of tiny holes R and air-tubes S in its body.

What is organism B and organelle Q?

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Eagles and vultures decompose the dead bodies of animals.

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Decomposers are the least important components of an ecosystem.

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Choose the appropriate word from the given options.

Give an example of a decomposer. (Earthworm/Roundworm)

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What will happen if the tigers and crocodiles are domesticated?

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Omnivorous animals are those that consume both plants and animals for food.

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Human beings come under the classification of_____.

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What do you generally understand by food habits? Classify animals based on food habits.