Home
Class 9
BIOLOGY
We eat food composed of all the nutrient...

We eat food composed of all the nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. After digestion, these are absorbed in the form of glucose, amino acids, fatty acids, glycerol, etc. what mechanisms are Involved in absorption of digested food and water?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The mechanisms involved in absorption of digested food and water are diffusion and osmosis respectively.
(i) Digested food-through diffusion i.e., the process in which molecules move from their region of higher concentration to their region of lower concentration till thay are uniformly distributed throughout the available space.
(ii) Water-through osmosis, i.e., the passage of water from a region of high water concentration through a semi-permeable membrane to a region of low water concentration. In this case, from small intestine (high concentration) to blood low concentration.
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • NATURAL RESOURCES

    NCERT EXEMPLAR|Exercise Natural Resources|56 Videos
  • TISSUES

    NCERT EXEMPLAR|Exercise Long answer|1 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Name the mechanisms involved in absorption of water and digested food.

Consider the following items. I. Proteins, carbohydrates and fats. II. Vitamins. III. Minerals. IV. Water Whicih of the above are considered as the constituents of food?

The principle organ in humans involved in the absorption of nutrients like glucose ,fructose, fatty acids , glycerol and amino acids is

NCERT EXEMPLAR-THE FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE -The Fundamental Unit Of Life
  1. A person takes concentrated solution of salt, after sometime, he start...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Name any cell organelle which is non-membranes.

    Text Solution

    |

  3. We eat food composed of all the nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. If you are provided with some vegetables to cook. You generally add sa...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. If cells of onion peel and RBC are separately kept in hypotonic soluti...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. Bacteria do not have chloroplast, but some bacteria are photoautotroph...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. Match the following columns {:(Column I,Column II),(A."Smooth endopl...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. Write the name of different plants parts in which chromoplast, chlorop...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. Name the organelles which show the analogy written as under (i) Tra...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. How is bacterial cell different from onion peel?

    Text Solution

    |

  11. How do substances like carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and water (H(2)O) move i...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. How does an Amoeba obtain its food?

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Name the two organelles in a plant cell that contain their own genetic...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. Why are lysosomes also known as scavengers of the cells?

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Which cell organelle controls most of the activities of the cell?

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Which kind of plastid is more common in (a) roots of the plant (b) l...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Why do plant cells posses large sized vacuole?

    Text Solution

    |

  18. How are chromatin, chromatid and chromosomes related to each other?

    Text Solution

    |

  19. What are the consequences of the following conditions? (a) A cell co...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. Draw a plant cell and label the parts which (a) determines the funct...

    Text Solution

    |