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Why do you think small intestine is long and coiled ?

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The small intestine is long and coiled because it has to stay for more time for complete digestion and absorption.
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VGS PUBLICATION-BRILLIANT-COORDINATION IN LIFE PROCESSES -QUESTIONS GIVEN IN THE LESSON (1 MARK QUESTIONS)
  1. What stimulates stomach muscle into action ?

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  2. What causes the stomach to churn and mix the food ?

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  3. Why should only a small quantity of food be passed from stomach do duo...

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  4. What is involved in bringing of about peristalsis?

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  5. What is the direction of peristalsis ( which end of the gut does it be...

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  6. What happens if the direction of present is reversed ?

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  7. Why do you think small intestine is long and coiled ?

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  8. What process is involved in this process of absorption ?

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  9. What is the relation between finger -like structures and paper folds?

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  10. What systems do you think are working together ?

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  11. Do you think those systems work together in the whole length of the di...

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  12. Often you may have experienced that if you have tension for some reaso...

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  13. What moves out of the gut ?

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  14. Two major pathways of waste expulsion are shown above. Which of the tw...

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  15. What controls the exit of stools from the body ?

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  16. Do you think the control is voluntary ? Why /Why not ?

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  17. Did we have a sphincter in any other part of the digestive canal ? Whe...

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  18. What is the fate of the digested substances that move into blood from ...

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  19. Where is the energy stored ?

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  20. Which system do you think will remove the excess salts from our body?

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