Life processes are the basic functions that are essential for survival in all living organisms. They include maintenance of protoplasmic structures, metabolism, nutrition, respiration, growth, exchange of materials, transportation, excretion, and irritability. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and energy in the form of glucose. It is a key life process that sustains life on Earth.
1) The document discusses different types of nutrition including autotrophic nutrition, heterotrophic nutrition, and holozoic nutrition. It provides examples of amoeba to illustrate holozoic nutrition.
2) Modes of symbiosis are discussed including parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. Examples of symbiotic relationships in aquatic organisms and plants are provided.
3) The different types of holozoic nutrition are defined including carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. Examples of organisms that use each type are given along with diagrams of stomach structures.
This document describes the two types of nutrition in living things: 1) Autotrophic nutrition, where organisms produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. 2) Heterotrophic nutrition, where organisms obtain organic compounds from other organisms. Autotrophs like plants perform photosynthesis, while deep sea tube worms use chemosynthesis. Heterotrophs such as animals and protozoa cannot produce their own food and rely on consuming organic compounds produced by autotrophs.
Biology - 101 things to know about biologyMr. Walajtys
This document provides a 101-item list summarizing key concepts in biology. Some of the main topics covered in the first few items include the seven main life functions, the levels of biological classification from kingdom to species, and the basic components and functions of cells. The list then delves into various biological concepts such as photosynthesis, the three main macromolecules, enzyme function, plant and animal nutrition, cell transport mechanisms, and human digestive and circulatory systems.
The document discusses several key life processes including nutrition, photosynthesis, and digestion. It defines autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition, with autotrophs like plants performing photosynthesis to produce their own food using carbon dioxide, water, chlorophyll, and sunlight. Heterotrophs depend on autotrophs for food and include animals. Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts in plant cells, which contain chlorophyll and use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. The document also describes digestion in animals, which involves ingestion, digestion through enzymes, absorption in the intestines, and egestion.
This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, excretion, movement, and reproduction. It focuses on describing the different types of nutrition such as autotrophic nutrition including photosynthesis, and heterotrophic nutrition including parasitic, saprophytic, and holozoic nutrition. It provides details about photosynthesis, including the raw materials, products, and steps involved. The document also discusses respiration and explains that it is the process of releasing energy from food with the help of oxygen.
Life processes are the basic functions performed by living organisms to maintain their life on this Earth.
Generally these are the life processes that are basic and common in all living organisms-
Nutrition
Respiration
Transportation
Excretion
Cbse class 10 science life processes notes Qsr Wasim
1. The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, circulation and excretion. It focuses on nutrition in detail.
2. There are two main types of nutrition - autotrophic where organisms make their own food, and heterotrophic where organisms depend on others for food. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic and parasitic modes.
3. The human digestive system is described in detail including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines and associated glands. Enzymatic digestion and absorption occurs throughout the system.
1) The document discusses different types of nutrition including autotrophic nutrition, heterotrophic nutrition, and holozoic nutrition. It provides examples of amoeba to illustrate holozoic nutrition.
2) Modes of symbiosis are discussed including parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. Examples of symbiotic relationships in aquatic organisms and plants are provided.
3) The different types of holozoic nutrition are defined including carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. Examples of organisms that use each type are given along with diagrams of stomach structures.
This document describes the two types of nutrition in living things: 1) Autotrophic nutrition, where organisms produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. 2) Heterotrophic nutrition, where organisms obtain organic compounds from other organisms. Autotrophs like plants perform photosynthesis, while deep sea tube worms use chemosynthesis. Heterotrophs such as animals and protozoa cannot produce their own food and rely on consuming organic compounds produced by autotrophs.
Biology - 101 things to know about biologyMr. Walajtys
This document provides a 101-item list summarizing key concepts in biology. Some of the main topics covered in the first few items include the seven main life functions, the levels of biological classification from kingdom to species, and the basic components and functions of cells. The list then delves into various biological concepts such as photosynthesis, the three main macromolecules, enzyme function, plant and animal nutrition, cell transport mechanisms, and human digestive and circulatory systems.
The document discusses several key life processes including nutrition, photosynthesis, and digestion. It defines autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition, with autotrophs like plants performing photosynthesis to produce their own food using carbon dioxide, water, chlorophyll, and sunlight. Heterotrophs depend on autotrophs for food and include animals. Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts in plant cells, which contain chlorophyll and use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. The document also describes digestion in animals, which involves ingestion, digestion through enzymes, absorption in the intestines, and egestion.
This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, excretion, movement, and reproduction. It focuses on describing the different types of nutrition such as autotrophic nutrition including photosynthesis, and heterotrophic nutrition including parasitic, saprophytic, and holozoic nutrition. It provides details about photosynthesis, including the raw materials, products, and steps involved. The document also discusses respiration and explains that it is the process of releasing energy from food with the help of oxygen.
Life processes are the basic functions performed by living organisms to maintain their life on this Earth.
Generally these are the life processes that are basic and common in all living organisms-
Nutrition
Respiration
Transportation
Excretion
Cbse class 10 science life processes notes Qsr Wasim
1. The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, circulation and excretion. It focuses on nutrition in detail.
2. There are two main types of nutrition - autotrophic where organisms make their own food, and heterotrophic where organisms depend on others for food. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic and parasitic modes.
3. The human digestive system is described in detail including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines and associated glands. Enzymatic digestion and absorption occurs throughout the system.
This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. It provides details on:
- Nutrition occurring through autotrophic and heterotrophic modes like saprophytic, parasitic, and holozoic. Photosynthesis is described as how plants produce their own food.
- Respiration being the process by which food is broken down using oxygen to release energy, occurring through cellular respiration in mitochondria.
- Transportation in humans occurring through the circulatory system which includes the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries moving blood. In plants it occurs through xylem and phloem tissues.
- Excretion in humans being carried out by the excretory system of kidneys,
The 8 Life Processes & Homeostasis - Living Environment/BiologyRyan Frank
This slideshow goes over the first unit of biology (Living Environment), the 8 life functions, as well as homeostasis, and metabolism. Corresponds to NYS Regents Exam.
The document discusses transportation processes in plants, humans, and animals. In plants, transportation occurs through vascular tissue including xylem and phloem. Xylem transports water and minerals from roots to leaves, while phloem transports organic compounds from leaves to other plant parts. In humans, the circulatory system transports blood, with the heart pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood throughout the body. Key parts of the circulatory system discussed include blood vessels and platelets. Transportation in animals is similar to humans, with blood and lymph vessels moving nutrients, gases, and waste.
The document discusses the key life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, growth and reproduction. It describes the different modes of nutrition like photosynthesis, heterotrophic nutrition and human nutrition. The passage also explains the process of respiration through aerobic and anaerobic pathways and gas exchange in humans via the respiratory and circulatory systems.
This document outlines the key characteristics that define living things and distinguishes them from nonliving things. It identifies eight life functions or processes that classify something as living: 1) digestion, 2) circulation, 3) movement, 4) respiration, 5) excretion, 6) coordination, 7) reproduction, and 8) immunity. These life functions work together to maintain homeostasis, an organism's ability to keep a stable internal environment, through various control mechanisms.
This document provides an overview of various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, excretion, and reproduction. It describes in detail the processes of nutrition, photosynthesis, respiration, and the human digestive and circulatory systems. For nutrition, it explains the different types of nutrients, the steps of digestion and absorption in humans, and photosynthesis in plants. For respiration, it discusses the gas exchange in animals and plants, and aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration. It also provides a brief introduction to the transportation and circulation systems in humans.
Nutrition and digestion allow animals to take in nutrients from food, break the food down, absorb it, and use it for energy and growth. Nutrition includes ingestion, digestion, absorption, storage, and use of nutrients. Digestion is the breakdown of food into absorbable particles through chemical and mechanical means. There are many feeding strategies like herbivory, predation, deposit feeding, and fluid feeding as well as continuous and discontinuous feeding. Digestive structures also vary from protozoa to invertebrates to vertebrates.
This document discusses several key life processes:
- Nutrition is divided into autotrophic and heterotrophic categories. Autotrophs like plants perform photosynthesis to produce their own food, while heterotrophs obtain energy from consuming other organisms.
- Respiration is the process by which cells obtain energy from food through oxidation, either aerobically with oxygen or anaerobically without oxygen.
- Transportation involves the circulatory system, which includes the heart, blood vessels, blood, and lymphatic vessels that circulate nutrients, gases, hormones, blood cells, and other substances throughout the body.
- Excretion is the removal of metabolic waste through organs like the kidneys, ureters,
All living things share seven life processes: 1) movement, 2) reproduction, 3) sensitivity to the environment, 4) nutrition, 5) excretion of waste, 6) respiration, and 7) growth. These processes allow organisms to obtain energy and materials from the environment, respond to stimuli, eliminate waste, and develop from birth to maturity. The initial letters of each process spell out "MRS NERG" to help remember the seven essential functions of life.
There are two main modes of nutrition - autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition. Autotrophs can produce their own food using inorganic materials like plants via photosynthesis. Heterotrophs obtain organic food from other sources and cannot produce their own food. There are different types of heterotrophic nutrition including holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic nutrition. Saprophytes obtain nutrients from non-living organic matter like fungi and bacteria that decompose dead organisms. Parasites obtain nutrients from other living organisms, harming the host.
The document discusses various life processes like nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion in humans and other organisms. It describes autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition processes like photosynthesis, and the role of organs like mouth, stomach, intestines in human digestion. It also summarizes the circulatory system including the heart, blood vessels and the transport of water, minerals in plants via xylem and phloem. Respiration and its role in releasing energy is defined. The key processes in excretion like the functioning of kidneys, nephrons and urine formation are outlined.
1. The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and transportation in organisms. It describes the modes of nutrition like autotrophic and heterotrophic, and the types of heterotrophic nutrition.
2. Nutrition in humans involves a digestive system with organs like mouth, stomach and intestines that break down food with enzymes and absorb nutrients. Respiration releases energy from food in cells with oxygen and involves aerobic and anaerobic processes.
3. Photosynthesis allows plants to produce food from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight using chlorophyll in the leaves. It is essential for life on Earth.
Holozoic nutrition involves the ingestion, digestion, absorption and assimilation of liquid or solid organic material by single-celled organisms like amoeba. It follows 5 steps - ingestion through a mouth-like opening, digestion of food particles within a food vacuole using lysosomal enzymes, absorption of digested materials through fine canals, assimilation of nutrients into the cell, and egestion of undigested waste. Amoeba proteus exhibits intracellular digestion, engulfing food through pseudopodia and breaking it down within a food vacuole.
This document provides information about various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and photosynthesis. It defines nutrition as the process of taking in food and its utilization by the body. The four basic life processes that maintain life are defined as nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. Respiration is described as the process by which food is burned with oxygen to release energy. Photosynthesis is introduced as the process by which plants produce food from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll.
This document provides information about various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and photosynthesis. It defines nutrition as the process of taking in food and utilizing it for growth, repair and energy. There are two main modes of nutrition - autotrophic (plants making their own food via photosynthesis) and heterotrophic (organisms obtaining food directly or indirectly from plants). Respiration is described as the process by which food is broken down using oxygen to release energy in cells. There are two types of respiration - aerobic respiration which produces more energy using oxygen, and anaerobic which produces less energy without oxygen. Photosynthesis is defined as the process by which plants make food (carbohydrates) from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight
The document discusses different types of nutrition processes. Autotrophic nutrition is the process where organisms make their own food using inorganic substances, like plants using photosynthesis. Heterotrophic nutrition is where organisms get food from other organisms, like animals obtaining nutrients from eating plants or other animals. Parasitic nutrition is where organisms live in or on a host organism and obtain nutrients from the host's body.
The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and transport in living organisms. It provides details on the different types of nutrition like photosynthesis in plants, heterotrophic nutrition in animals and humans. The seven life processes - movement, respiration, sensitivity, nutrition, growth, excretion and reproduction are defined. Respiration occurs aerobically with oxygen or anaerobically without oxygen. The document also explains gas exchange and transport in humans via the respiratory and circulatory systems.
The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation and excretion. It provides details on the modes of nutrition like autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition. It describes the process of photosynthesis in plants and the steps of digestion and absorption of food in humans. It explains the two types of respiration - aerobic and anaerobic respiration. It discusses the circulatory system in humans involving the heart, blood vessels and blood. It also describes the transportation of materials in plants through xylem and phloem. The removal of waste through specialized organs like kidneys is discussed under the topic of excretion.
The document discusses different modes of nutrition in living organisms. It describes heterotrophic nutrition where organisms depend on other organisms for food. The three types of heterotrophic nutrition are parasitic, saprophytic, and holozoic. Parasitic organisms harm their hosts, saprophytes feed on dead and decaying matter, and holozoic organisms ingest complex foods. Holozoic nutrition involves ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion. Examples of different organisms and their modes of nutrition are provided, including the human digestive system.
This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. It provides details on:
- Nutrition occurring through autotrophic and heterotrophic modes like saprophytic, parasitic, and holozoic. Photosynthesis is described as how plants produce their own food.
- Respiration being the process by which food is broken down using oxygen to release energy, occurring through cellular respiration in mitochondria.
- Transportation in humans occurring through the circulatory system which includes the heart, arteries, veins and capillaries moving blood. In plants it occurs through xylem and phloem tissues.
- Excretion in humans being carried out by the excretory system of kidneys,
The 8 Life Processes & Homeostasis - Living Environment/BiologyRyan Frank
This slideshow goes over the first unit of biology (Living Environment), the 8 life functions, as well as homeostasis, and metabolism. Corresponds to NYS Regents Exam.
The document discusses transportation processes in plants, humans, and animals. In plants, transportation occurs through vascular tissue including xylem and phloem. Xylem transports water and minerals from roots to leaves, while phloem transports organic compounds from leaves to other plant parts. In humans, the circulatory system transports blood, with the heart pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood throughout the body. Key parts of the circulatory system discussed include blood vessels and platelets. Transportation in animals is similar to humans, with blood and lymph vessels moving nutrients, gases, and waste.
The document discusses the key life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, growth and reproduction. It describes the different modes of nutrition like photosynthesis, heterotrophic nutrition and human nutrition. The passage also explains the process of respiration through aerobic and anaerobic pathways and gas exchange in humans via the respiratory and circulatory systems.
This document outlines the key characteristics that define living things and distinguishes them from nonliving things. It identifies eight life functions or processes that classify something as living: 1) digestion, 2) circulation, 3) movement, 4) respiration, 5) excretion, 6) coordination, 7) reproduction, and 8) immunity. These life functions work together to maintain homeostasis, an organism's ability to keep a stable internal environment, through various control mechanisms.
This document provides an overview of various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, excretion, and reproduction. It describes in detail the processes of nutrition, photosynthesis, respiration, and the human digestive and circulatory systems. For nutrition, it explains the different types of nutrients, the steps of digestion and absorption in humans, and photosynthesis in plants. For respiration, it discusses the gas exchange in animals and plants, and aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration. It also provides a brief introduction to the transportation and circulation systems in humans.
Nutrition and digestion allow animals to take in nutrients from food, break the food down, absorb it, and use it for energy and growth. Nutrition includes ingestion, digestion, absorption, storage, and use of nutrients. Digestion is the breakdown of food into absorbable particles through chemical and mechanical means. There are many feeding strategies like herbivory, predation, deposit feeding, and fluid feeding as well as continuous and discontinuous feeding. Digestive structures also vary from protozoa to invertebrates to vertebrates.
This document discusses several key life processes:
- Nutrition is divided into autotrophic and heterotrophic categories. Autotrophs like plants perform photosynthesis to produce their own food, while heterotrophs obtain energy from consuming other organisms.
- Respiration is the process by which cells obtain energy from food through oxidation, either aerobically with oxygen or anaerobically without oxygen.
- Transportation involves the circulatory system, which includes the heart, blood vessels, blood, and lymphatic vessels that circulate nutrients, gases, hormones, blood cells, and other substances throughout the body.
- Excretion is the removal of metabolic waste through organs like the kidneys, ureters,
All living things share seven life processes: 1) movement, 2) reproduction, 3) sensitivity to the environment, 4) nutrition, 5) excretion of waste, 6) respiration, and 7) growth. These processes allow organisms to obtain energy and materials from the environment, respond to stimuli, eliminate waste, and develop from birth to maturity. The initial letters of each process spell out "MRS NERG" to help remember the seven essential functions of life.
There are two main modes of nutrition - autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition. Autotrophs can produce their own food using inorganic materials like plants via photosynthesis. Heterotrophs obtain organic food from other sources and cannot produce their own food. There are different types of heterotrophic nutrition including holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic nutrition. Saprophytes obtain nutrients from non-living organic matter like fungi and bacteria that decompose dead organisms. Parasites obtain nutrients from other living organisms, harming the host.
The document discusses various life processes like nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion in humans and other organisms. It describes autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition processes like photosynthesis, and the role of organs like mouth, stomach, intestines in human digestion. It also summarizes the circulatory system including the heart, blood vessels and the transport of water, minerals in plants via xylem and phloem. Respiration and its role in releasing energy is defined. The key processes in excretion like the functioning of kidneys, nephrons and urine formation are outlined.
1. The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and transportation in organisms. It describes the modes of nutrition like autotrophic and heterotrophic, and the types of heterotrophic nutrition.
2. Nutrition in humans involves a digestive system with organs like mouth, stomach and intestines that break down food with enzymes and absorb nutrients. Respiration releases energy from food in cells with oxygen and involves aerobic and anaerobic processes.
3. Photosynthesis allows plants to produce food from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight using chlorophyll in the leaves. It is essential for life on Earth.
Holozoic nutrition involves the ingestion, digestion, absorption and assimilation of liquid or solid organic material by single-celled organisms like amoeba. It follows 5 steps - ingestion through a mouth-like opening, digestion of food particles within a food vacuole using lysosomal enzymes, absorption of digested materials through fine canals, assimilation of nutrients into the cell, and egestion of undigested waste. Amoeba proteus exhibits intracellular digestion, engulfing food through pseudopodia and breaking it down within a food vacuole.
This document provides information about various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and photosynthesis. It defines nutrition as the process of taking in food and its utilization by the body. The four basic life processes that maintain life are defined as nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. Respiration is described as the process by which food is burned with oxygen to release energy. Photosynthesis is introduced as the process by which plants produce food from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll.
This document provides information about various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and photosynthesis. It defines nutrition as the process of taking in food and utilizing it for growth, repair and energy. There are two main modes of nutrition - autotrophic (plants making their own food via photosynthesis) and heterotrophic (organisms obtaining food directly or indirectly from plants). Respiration is described as the process by which food is broken down using oxygen to release energy in cells. There are two types of respiration - aerobic respiration which produces more energy using oxygen, and anaerobic which produces less energy without oxygen. Photosynthesis is defined as the process by which plants make food (carbohydrates) from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight
The document discusses different types of nutrition processes. Autotrophic nutrition is the process where organisms make their own food using inorganic substances, like plants using photosynthesis. Heterotrophic nutrition is where organisms get food from other organisms, like animals obtaining nutrients from eating plants or other animals. Parasitic nutrition is where organisms live in or on a host organism and obtain nutrients from the host's body.
The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and transport in living organisms. It provides details on the different types of nutrition like photosynthesis in plants, heterotrophic nutrition in animals and humans. The seven life processes - movement, respiration, sensitivity, nutrition, growth, excretion and reproduction are defined. Respiration occurs aerobically with oxygen or anaerobically without oxygen. The document also explains gas exchange and transport in humans via the respiratory and circulatory systems.
The document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation and excretion. It provides details on the modes of nutrition like autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition. It describes the process of photosynthesis in plants and the steps of digestion and absorption of food in humans. It explains the two types of respiration - aerobic and anaerobic respiration. It discusses the circulatory system in humans involving the heart, blood vessels and blood. It also describes the transportation of materials in plants through xylem and phloem. The removal of waste through specialized organs like kidneys is discussed under the topic of excretion.
The document discusses different modes of nutrition in living organisms. It describes heterotrophic nutrition where organisms depend on other organisms for food. The three types of heterotrophic nutrition are parasitic, saprophytic, and holozoic. Parasitic organisms harm their hosts, saprophytes feed on dead and decaying matter, and holozoic organisms ingest complex foods. Holozoic nutrition involves ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion. Examples of different organisms and their modes of nutrition are provided, including the human digestive system.
This document discusses two types of nutrition - autotrophic and heterotrophic. Autotrophic nutrition involves organisms synthesizing their own food from inorganic substances in the environment, like plants. Heterotrophic nutrition involves organisms depending on other organisms for food, like animals. It also outlines the basic steps of nutrition in animals as ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion.
The document discusses the process of nutrition in organisms. There are two main types of nutrition - autotrophic and heterotrophic. Autotrophs like plants can synthesize their own food using photosynthesis, requiring carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Heterotrophs obtain food from other sources and break it down using enzymes. The human digestive system breaks down ingested food through a multi-step process involving several organs like the mouth, stomach and small intestine to extract nutrients for absorption and use in the body.
Biology : Chapter 1 : The Science of Lifepaglinton
This document provides an overview of biology and the classification of living organisms. It discusses:
1. What biology is and defines key terms like organism and biologist.
2. The characteristics of life including cells, nutrition, respiration, excretion, growth, movement, reproduction, sensitivity and adaptability.
3. How Carolus Linnaeus developed the system of binomial nomenclature for classifying organisms into a hierarchy of kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species based on their similarities and differences.
This document discusses different types of nutrition including autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition. It provides details on photosynthesis, the process by which plants perform autotrophic nutrition to produce their own food. It describes the organelles and processes involved in photosynthesis, including the role of chloroplasts, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. The document also discusses the human digestive system and the process of digestion that takes place in the mouth, stomach, and small and large intestines to break down food into absorbable nutrients. It includes two case studies with questions about photosynthesis, stomata, and different types of heterotrophic nutrition.
The document discusses nutrition in various lower animals including amoeba, hydra, and planaria. It describes their structures, modes of nutrition, and digestive processes. Amoeba obtains nutrition through holozoic means, ingesting and digesting food intracellularly using food vacuoles. Hydra's mouth opens to a gastrocoel cavity containing glandular cells that secrete enzymes, aiding both extracellular and intracellular digestion. Planaria has a tube-like alimentary canal with a branching intestinal system for digestion, absorption, and distribution of food throughout its body.
The document discusses the process of photosynthesis in plants. It begins by defining photosynthesis as the process by which plants produce glucose and release oxygen using carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight through the action of chlorophyll. It then describes the key components and stages of photosynthesis, including how raw materials are absorbed by the plant, the light-dependent and light-independent reactions, and the role of stomata in gas exchange. It concludes by explaining the importance of photosynthesis in providing food and maintaining oxygen and carbon dioxide levels.
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This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, excretion, movement, and reproduction. It focuses on describing the different types of nutrition such as autotrophic nutrition including photosynthesis, and heterotrophic nutrition including parasitic, saprophytic, and holozoic nutrition. It provides details about photosynthesis, including the raw materials, products, and steps involved. The document also discusses respiration and explains that it is the process of releasing energy from food with the help of oxygen.
Life processes are the series of actions, such as movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition that are essential for a living being to sustain.
The processes, which collectively perform the maintenance of our body system, are known as life processes.
The maintenance processes protect us from damage and break-down; however, to keep these maintenance processes working properly, we need to provide energy to them. Healthy food is the best source of such energy.The processes, which collectively perform the maintenance of our body system, are known as life processes.
The maintenance processes protect us from damage and break-down; however, to keep these maintenance processes working properly, we need to provide energy to them. Healthy food is the best source of such energy.The processes, which collectively perform the maintenance of our body system, are known as life processes.
The maintenance processes protect us from damage and break-down; however, to keep these maintenance processes working properly, we need to provide energy to them. Healthy food is the best source of such energy.
This document discusses various life processes including nutrition, respiration, and transportation in living organisms. It provides details on the different modes of nutrition like autotrophic, heterotrophic, saprotrophic, parasitic, and holozoic nutrition. It describes nutrition in plants, humans, amoeba and paramecium. It also explains aerobic and anaerobic respiration, and the processes of digestion and absorption of food in humans.
1. The document discusses the process of nutrition in organisms including autotrophic nutrition in plants, heterotrophic nutrition in animals and humans, and the process of photosynthesis.
2. It describes the human digestive system and the steps of digestion and absorption of food. Respiration is discussed including aerobic and anaerobic respiration as well as the human respiratory system.
3. The key components and processes of photosynthesis, nutrition in various organisms, and the human digestive and respiratory systems are explained in detail in the document.
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Cells are the basic unit of life that perform three major functions - regulation, reproduction, and excretion. Regulation controls a living thing's activities through nervous and endocrine systems. Reproduction allows living things to produce offspring through asexual or sexual means. Excretion removes waste from cells. These functions performed by cells are vital for the life of the organism.
This document discusses the basic needs of animals for survival, including protection, movement, ingestion of food, transport of materials, defense, respiration, control/response to the environment, and elimination of wastes. It describes the integumentary system that protects the body, the three types of skeletons (hydrostatic, exoskeleton, endoskeleton) that provide support, and the three types of muscles (skeletal, smooth, cardiac) that allow for movement. The processes of ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination of food are explained. The circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory and nervous systems are introduced as means of transport, defense, gas exchange and environmental response.
The document discusses life processes and nutrition in living organisms. It defines seven life processes - movement, reproduction, sensitivity, growth, respiration, excretion and nutrition. There are two main modes of nutrition - autotrophic nutrition, where organisms produce their own food (e.g. photosynthesis in plants), and heterotrophic nutrition, where food is obtained from other organisms. The human digestive system is also described, which takes in food and breaks it down through a series of organs so nutrients can be absorbed and waste removed.
Nutrition is the process by which organisms take in food and convert it to energy and vital nutrients. There are two main types of nutrition - autotrophic and heterotrophic. Autotrophs like plants produce their own food through photosynthesis, using carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Heterotrophs cannot produce their own food and depend on other organisms, either directly by eating plants or animals, or indirectly through food chains. Examples of heterotrophs include fungi, animals and humans.
JAMES WEBB STUDY THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE SEEDSSérgio Sacani
The pathway(s) to seeding the massive black holes (MBHs) that exist at the heart of galaxies in the present and distant Universe remains an unsolved problem. Here we categorise, describe and quantitatively discuss the formation pathways of both light and heavy seeds. We emphasise that the most recent computational models suggest that rather than a bimodal-like mass spectrum between light and heavy seeds with light at one end and heavy at the other that instead a continuum exists. Light seeds being more ubiquitous and the heavier seeds becoming less and less abundant due the rarer environmental conditions required for their formation. We therefore examine the different mechanisms that give rise to different seed mass spectrums. We show how and why the mechanisms that produce the heaviest seeds are also among the rarest events in the Universe and are hence extremely unlikely to be the seeds for the vast majority of the MBH population. We quantify, within the limits of the current large uncertainties in the seeding processes, the expected number densities of the seed mass spectrum. We argue that light seeds must be at least 103 to 105 times more numerous than heavy seeds to explain the MBH population as a whole. Based on our current understanding of the seed population this makes heavy seeds (Mseed > 103 M⊙) a significantly more likely pathway given that heavy seeds have an abundance pattern than is close to and likely in excess of 10−4 compared to light seeds. Finally, we examine the current state-of-the-art in numerical calculations and recent observations and plot a path forward for near-future advances in both domains.
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Ozturkcan, S., Berndt, A., & Angelakis, A. (2024). Mending clothing to support sustainable fashion. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference by the Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR), 10-13 Jun 2024, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Candidate young stellar objects in the S-cluster: Kinematic analysis of a sub...Sérgio Sacani
Context. The observation of several L-band emission sources in the S cluster has led to a rich discussion of their nature. However, a definitive answer to the classification of the dusty objects requires an explanation for the detection of compact Doppler-shifted Brγ emission. The ionized hydrogen in combination with the observation of mid-infrared L-band continuum emission suggests that most of these sources are embedded in a dusty envelope. These embedded sources are part of the S-cluster, and their relationship to the S-stars is still under debate. To date, the question of the origin of these two populations has been vague, although all explanations favor migration processes for the individual cluster members. Aims. This work revisits the S-cluster and its dusty members orbiting the supermassive black hole SgrA* on bound Keplerian orbits from a kinematic perspective. The aim is to explore the Keplerian parameters for patterns that might imply a nonrandom distribution of the sample. Additionally, various analytical aspects are considered to address the nature of the dusty sources. Methods. Based on the photometric analysis, we estimated the individual H−K and K−L colors for the source sample and compared the results to known cluster members. The classification revealed a noticeable contrast between the S-stars and the dusty sources. To fit the flux-density distribution, we utilized the radiative transfer code HYPERION and implemented a young stellar object Class I model. We obtained the position angle from the Keplerian fit results; additionally, we analyzed the distribution of the inclinations and the longitudes of the ascending node. Results. The colors of the dusty sources suggest a stellar nature consistent with the spectral energy distribution in the near and midinfrared domains. Furthermore, the evaporation timescales of dusty and gaseous clumps in the vicinity of SgrA* are much shorter ( 2yr) than the epochs covered by the observations (≈15yr). In addition to the strong evidence for the stellar classification of the D-sources, we also find a clear disk-like pattern following the arrangements of S-stars proposed in the literature. Furthermore, we find a global intrinsic inclination for all dusty sources of 60 ± 20◦, implying a common formation process. Conclusions. The pattern of the dusty sources manifested in the distribution of the position angles, inclinations, and longitudes of the ascending node strongly suggests two different scenarios: the main-sequence stars and the dusty stellar S-cluster sources share a common formation history or migrated with a similar formation channel in the vicinity of SgrA*. Alternatively, the gravitational influence of SgrA* in combination with a massive perturber, such as a putative intermediate mass black hole in the IRS 13 cluster, forces the dusty objects and S-stars to follow a particular orbital arrangement. Key words. stars: black holes– stars: formation– Galaxy: center– galaxies: star formation
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
Evidence of Jet Activity from the Secondary Black Hole in the OJ 287 Binary S...Sérgio Sacani
Wereport the study of a huge optical intraday flare on 2021 November 12 at 2 a.m. UT in the blazar OJ287. In the binary black hole model, it is associated with an impact of the secondary black hole on the accretion disk of the primary. Our multifrequency observing campaign was set up to search for such a signature of the impact based on a prediction made 8 yr earlier. The first I-band results of the flare have already been reported by Kishore et al. (2024). Here we combine these data with our monitoring in the R-band. There is a big change in the R–I spectral index by 1.0 ±0.1 between the normal background and the flare, suggesting a new component of radiation. The polarization variation during the rise of the flare suggests the same. The limits on the source size place it most reasonably in the jet of the secondary BH. We then ask why we have not seen this phenomenon before. We show that OJ287 was never before observed with sufficient sensitivity on the night when the flare should have happened according to the binary model. We also study the probability that this flare is just an oversized example of intraday variability using the Krakow data set of intense monitoring between 2015 and 2023. We find that the occurrence of a flare of this size and rapidity is unlikely. In machine-readable Tables 1 and 2, we give the full orbit-linked historical light curve of OJ287 as well as the dense monitoring sample of Krakow.
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Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
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The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
1. What are Life Processes?
Life Processes are those basic functions of living beings which are essential for their
survival. They are the same in all types of living forms whether unicellular or multicellular,
plants or animals.
1. Maintenance:- All living beings are made of protoplasmic structures. They have to be kept
in functional state whether an organism is active or inactive. Functional state of
protoplasmic structures is maintained only if they are kept in dynamic state with breakdown
and build-up processes going on simultaneously.
2. Metabolism:- It is the sum total of all chemical reactions which occur in a living being due
to interaction amongst its molecules. All functions of organisms are due to metabolism.
Metabolism has two components, anabolism and catabolism. Anabolism or constructive
metabolism consists of build-up reactions where complex molecules are formed from
simpler ones, e.g., formation of glycogen from glucose or proteins from amino acids. Energy
is required for anabolic reactions. Catabolism or destructive metabolism consists of
breakdown reactions where complex substances are broken down into simpler substances,
e.g., respiration (breaks glucose into carbon dioxide and water).
3. Nutrition:- It is required by all living beings for providing energy and body building
materials. Body building materials are usually carbon based so that food sources are also
carbon based. Plants manufacture their own food in the process of photosynthesis. Animals
obtain food from outside. Food obtained from outside is first broken down into simpler
soluble substances for absorption. Inside the cells, the simple substances are converted into
various complex bio-chemicals to form components of protoplasm.
4. Respiration:- Every living being requires energy for working of body machinery, its
maintenance, repair, replacement and bio-synthesis. Energy is obtained by break down of
carbon based molecules in the process of respiration. Oxidation-reduction reactions are
common chemical reactions involved in respiratory break down of molecules. Most
organisms use oxygen obtained from outside for the process of respiration.
5. Growth:- It is irreversible increase in body cells that occurs in young organisms prior to
reaching maturity. Plants have the ability to continuously grow. Growth is possible if
buildup reactions (Anabolism) are more abundant than break down reactions (Catabolic
reactions). For this, the organisms must prepare or obtain food materials more than their
requirement for maintenance.
6. Exchange of materials:- There is a regular exchange of materials between the living
organisms and their environment. Living beings obtain nutrients, water and oxygen from
their environment. They give out undigested materials, carbon dioxide and waste products.
Single-celled organisms have the entire surface in direct contact with the environment. They
do not possess any specific structures for intake and explosion of materials. Diffusion,
facilitated transport and active transport are involved for movement of substances across the
cell membrane.
In multicellular organisms specialized structures have been formed for different
functions e.g., ingestion, egestion, exchange of gases
7. Transportation:- In multicellular organisms, all the cells are not in direct contact with the
environment. They have specific structures for exchange of gases, ingestion and digestion of
food materials. However, every cell of the body has to be provided with food, water and
oxygen. Similarly, carbon dioxide and wastes have to be taken away from every cell.
Therefore, a mechanism of transportation is found. It is circulatory system in animals and
vascular tissues in plants.
8. Excretion:- A number of waste products are formed as byproducts of metabolism. They are
usually toxic and are removed from the body. The process of removal of waste products
from the body is called excretion.
2. 9.Irritability:- Every living organism is aware of its surroundings. It responds to changes in the
environment.
NUTRITION:- may be defined as a collective phenomenon in which an organism is capable of
capturing food essential not only for maintaining vital life processes, but also for repair and growth
of tissues. The whole process of nutrition involves introduction of food, its digestion by various
juices and enzymes and break down into smaller simpler and soluble molecules, absorption of the
soluble food and lastly expulsion of undigested matter formed during the process. MODES OF
NUTRITION: - The nutrition of all the organisms may broadly be grouped into three categories,
which are:-
a)Autortopic Nutrition Or Holophytic:- It is a mode of nutrition in which organisms are able to
build up their own organic food from inorganic raw materials with the help of energy. The organisms
performing Autotropic nutrition are called Autotrops, Auto meaning self and trophe meaning
nourishment. Autotropic nutrition is a characteristic feature of all the green colored pigments called as
chlorophyll. These plants have an ability to synthesise all the essential organic compounds. From
inorganic compounds like CO2 and H2O in presence of sunlight with the help of a process called
Photosynthesis. Some animals, that contain chlorophyll in their bodies also, show this property of
synthesizing their own food material eg; Euglena and some green bacteria like sulphur and methane
bacteria.
b)Heterotrophic Nutrition: - It is a mode of nutrition in which organisms obtain readymade
organic food from outside source. The organisms that depend upon outside sources for obtaining
organic nutrients are called heterotrophs, (hetero or heteros and trophe meaning nourishment). It is a
characteristic feature of all animals and non green plants, that are unable to utilize carbon and
synthesis organic compounds necessary for life, but depends upon organic sources of carbon. They
are thus dependent upon autotropic organisms (Plants) and are called as heteriotrophs. It is of the
following types:-
1) Saprophytic Nutrition:- In this type of nutrition, an organism lives upon dead organic sources
such as dead plants and dead animals. These usually secrete dissolving and digesting enzymes and
absorb the liquidified molecules so formed e.g.; yeast, bread moulds and dung moulds etc.
2) Parasitic Nutrition:- In this type of nutrition, an organism lives totally at the expense of others
and derives its food material and shelter from the other .These organisms which derive food material
are called parasites and the organism from which food is derived is called as host. This type of
nutrition is termed as parasitic or holozoic nutrition .It is also known as parasite-host relationship
e.g. Cuscuta, Ascaris etc.
3) Holozoic Nutrition:- It is a mode of heterotrophic nutrition which involves intake of solid
pieces of food. Since solid food is taken in, Holozoic nutrition is also called ingestive nutrition.
Holozoic nutrition (GK. Holo-Whole, Zoon-Animal) is found in animals and protozoan protists.
The food may consist of another animal, plant or its parts. Depending upon the source of food,
Holozoic organisms are of three types- Herbivores, Carnivores, Ominivores.
Steps in Holozoic Nutrition:-
There are five steps in Holozoic nutrition- ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and
egestion.
1. Ingestion (L. ingestus-taken in.):- It is taking in of solid food with the help of temporary or
permanent mouth. Different animals use different organs for catching, holding and putting
the food into mouth. Cutting and tearing the solid food into small pieces is common for
ingestion.
2. Digestion:- The ingested food consists of complex insoluble organic substances. The
conversion of complex insoluble food ingredients into simple absorbable form is called
digestion. It is a catabolic process which occurs with the help of digestive enzymes.
3. Absorption:- The digestive food is absorbed from the digestive tract and transported to all
body parts. It is picked up by all the living cells.
4. Assimilation:- Inside the living cells, the absorbed food materials are used in obtaining
energy and formation of new components for repair and growth of cells. Assimilation is an
anabolic process as it takes part in synthesis of proteins, polysaccharides, fats and other
macromolecules.
3. 5.Egestion:- (L. egestus-discharge) The whole of ingested food is seldom digested. The
undigested components of food are thrown out of the body as faecal matter. The process is
called egestion.
Digestion:-
Digestion may be defined as hydrolysis of complex organic molecules with the help of
enzymes into their simpler and diffusible component which can be absorbed in the gastrointestinal
tract for further utilization. Thus it includes both mechanical and chemical breakdown of the
ingested food material. It starts in the mouth and continues into small intestines. TYPES OF
Digestion
Digestion is of two types: - Intracellular and Extracellular
1) Intracellular Digestion: - In unicellular organisms like Amoeba the food is taken through its
surface (Endocytosis) and the digests it within the cell. This type of digestion occurring with in the
cell is known as Intracellular Digestion.
2) Extracellular or Intercellular Digestion:- In higher multicellular organisms the food is put into
a cavity or canal called alimentary canal or digestive tract or Gut or GIT where food is digested and
then absorbed into the blood to reach the different parts of the body for proper utilization. The
undigested food if any is passed out of the body through the other end of the alimentary canal. This
type of digestion (outside the cell) is known as Extracellular or Intercellular digestion.
DIGESTION IN MAN Digestion of food material ingested by a man does not takes place in a
particular region of the digestive tract or alimentary canal .It is completed in different parts which
may be described as under
1. Digestion of food in mouth:- (buckle cavity) In man the process of digestion starts in the mouth
which prepares food material for the digestion. In mouth, the teeth start breaking down food by
the process of mastication. During this process the food is thoroughly mixed with saliva secreted
by the salivary glands .It contains large number of enzymes, of which salivary amylase (ptyalin)
is of great importance, causing chemical digestion of starch .The masticated and partially
digested food is then rounded off in a form of small ball called as bolus with the help of tongue
and is passed through the esophagus or food pipe or gullet into the stomach by the peristaltic
movements of the esophagus
2. Digestion in stomach:- In the stomach, the partially digested food material is acted upon by
gastric juice secreted by gastric glands, containing HCL, pepsin, rennin, and gastric lipase
enzymes. The gastric juice is a composite secretion of at least three different types of cells -
parietal cells, chief cells and mucous cells. The parietal cells secrete HCL, The chief cells supply
pepsin and other enzymes like rennin etc. and the mucous cells secrete mucin in the stomach
pepsin breaks down the proteins into smaller molecules known as peptidase. The process is aided
Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic nutrition:-
Autotrophic Nutrition Heterotrophic Nutrition
Food is self manufactured. Food is obtained readymade from outside.
An external source of energy is required for
synthesis of food.
An external source of energy is not required. The
required energy is present in the food obtained from
outside.
Inorganic substances constitute the raw
materials for manufacturing food.
Inorganic substances are not much required.
Digestion is absent. An external or internal digestion is required for
conversion of complex organic materials into
simpler and soluble ones.
Chlorophyll is present for trapping light
energy.
Chlorophyll is absent
Organisms performing autotrophic nutrition
function as producers.
Examples:- Green plants, Some bacteria,
Some protists.
Organisms performing heterotrophic nutrition
function as consumers.
Animals, Many protists and Monerans.
4. by the addition of HCL, which not only activates the various
enzymes but also turns the food into soup called chyme. This
chyme passes into the duodenum for further action.
3. Digestion in small intestine:- In the anterior part of the small
intestine called duodenum, the food (chyme) is mixed with the
bile juices from liver, pancreatic juice from pancreas and
intestinal juice from the intestinal glands. The combined effect of
these juices causes the chief chemical changes of the intestinal
digestion. These juices contain enzymes, which digest
carbohydrates, proteins and fats of the food material. The broken
food material is then diffused through the epithelial cells of the
intestinal villi (finger like projections of the intestine) into the
blood vessels which carries it to the cells.
4. Digestion in large intestine:- The process of the digestion does
not take place in this region. It simply secrets mucus, which
serves as a lubricant for easy passage of the undigested matter in
the form of faeces. The intestinal walls also absorb water from the undigested food material
passed into it which is ultimately egested through the anus.
Dental Caries: - It is localized softening and destruction of enamel and dentine of teeth forming
cavities that reach the pulp. Dental caries is also called dental decay. It is caused by bacterium
streptococcus mutans. It feeds on food particles especially sugars and produces acids. The acids are
growing on food particles streptococcus mutans multiplies rapidly and forms a dental plaque. The
plaque covers the teeth. Its bacteria secrete the acids that cause dental caries. Saliva which normally
neutralises the acid and kills the bacteria is unable to protect the teeth because of the plaque. Brushing
of teeth after meals removes the plaque. Bacteria are unable to multiply and produce acids. However,
if plaque formation is allowed to persist, softening of enamel and dentine will allow the
microorganisms to reach the pulp of the teeth. This results in inflammation and infection resulting in
acute pain, total decay and falling of teeth.
Photosynthesis (Photos-Light, Synthesis-putting together)
Photosynthesis may be defined as an anabolic process in which green plants manufacture
complex organic food substances (carbohydrate) from simple inorganic compounds like carbon
dioxide and water in presence of sunlight with the aid of chlorophyll and evolve out oxygen as a by-
product of the process. Thus photosynthesis is a process in which radiant energy is converted into
chemical energy
6C02+6H20Chlorophyll
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sunlight
In other words photosynthesis is a series of oxidation- reduction reaction in which C02 is
reduced and H20 is oxidized to produce carbohydrates and oxygen.
Mechanism of Photosynthesis:-
Photosynthesis is formation of organic food from carbon dioxide and water with the help of
sunlight inside chlorophyll containing cells. Oxygen is produced as by-products.
6C02 + 12H20Chlorophyll
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SunlightGlucose
Oxygen comes from water. Hydrogen of water is used to reduce carbon dioxide to form
carbohydrate.
2H20 Light energy
2H2 + 02
Chlorophyll
C02 + 2H2
Energy
[CH20] + H2O
Carbohydrate
Actually, photosynthesis occurs in two steps, photochemical and biochemical.
1. Photochemical phase (Light or Hill Reaction)The reactions of this phase are driven by light
energy. They are of two steps- photolysis of water and formation of assimilatory power.
5. a. Photolysis of water:- Light energy splits up water into two components. The step requires
an oxygen evolving complex (formerly called z-complex) having manganese ions. Calcium
and chlorine are also required.
2H2o OEC
O2+ 4H+
+ 4e-
Mn, Ca, Cl
b. Formation of Assimilatory power:- Electrons released by photolysis of water are picked up
by chlorophyll a molecules. On absorption of light energy, each chlorophyll a molecule
throws out an electron with gain of energy. This is primary reaction of photosynthesis which
converts light energy into chemical energy. Electrons travel along an electron transport
system, releasing energy in the process. The energy is used in the formation of ATP (adeno
sine triphosphate) from ADP and inorganic phosphate. Synthesis of ATP and ADP and
inorganic phosphate (pi) with the help of light energy is called Phototophosphorylation.
ADP + Pi + energy -------- ►ATP
The electrons ultimately activate NADP (nicotinamide di nucleotide phosophate) and makes
it combine with hydrogen to form NADPH2.
NADP+
+ 2e-
+ 2H+
--------► NADPH + H+
(NADPH2)
Both ATP and NADPH2 together form assimilatory power
2.Biosynthetic phase (Dark or Blackman's Reaction):- It is actually light independent reaction
which can occur both in light as well as in dark. It requires the energy and reducing power
contained in assimilatory power of light reaction. Common pathway of biosynthetic phase is calvin
cycle. Carbon dioxide combines with ribulosebiphosphate in the presence of enzyme
ribulosebiphosphate carboxylase or rubisco. It produces two molecules of phosphoglyceric acid
(PGA).
RuBP + CO2 rubisco
2PGA
In the presence of ATP, phosphoglyceric acid is reduced by NADPH2 to form
glyceraldehydes phosphate (GAP).
PGA + ATP + NADPH2 ------- ► GAP + NADP + ADP + Pi
A part of glyceraldehydes phosphate is changed into dihydroxyacetone phosphate. The
two condense and form glucose. Ribulosebiphosphate is regenerated to combine with carbon
dioxide again. Glucose undergoes condensation to form starch.
Raw material of the photosynthesis:-
The process of photosynthesis require various raw materials essential to synthesize energy
complex compounds called carbohydrates. These include
(1) Chlorophyll:-
The chlorophyll or green pigment of the plant are the most active and important pigments of
the photosynthesis. These are regarded as key pigments of the photosynthesis because of their
remarkable ability of absorbing light energy, which is then converted into chemical energy during the
process of photosynthesis. All the green plants contain chloroplasts, which give the coloring material
and are accordingly called as photosynthetic- organelles of the plants.
(2) CO2:- All green plants utilize free atmospheric carbon dioxide during the process of
photosynthesis to synthesis energy rich complex organic molecules called carbohydrates. These
photosynthetic plants fix free atmospheric carbon dioxide during daytime when light energy is
available to them. But during the night, the process stops.
(3) Water:- Water is another raw material for the process of photosynthesis. Plants absorb the
required amount of water by root hairs and pass it on to the leaves through xylem, where it is utilized
during the process of photosynthesis to synthesis energy organic compounds.
(4) Light:- The sunlight is a natural and prime source of energy for photosynthesis. It has been
verified by experiments that the rate of photosynthesis remains highest in red light. Ordinary light
consists of seven colors (VIBGYOR) and during photosynthesis; chlorophyll does not use all the
seven colors. It absorbs mostly red and violet portions only. However, the green color reflects back
which gives chlorophyll a greenish appearance.
6. Activities to demonstrate:-
1) Importance of Chlorophyll:- Take a variegated leaf of a garden plant that has been exposed to
sunlight for few hours. Test it for starch with iodine test. Only green parts of the plant leaf will turn
blue, showing that chlorophyll is necessary for photosynthesis.
2) Importance of Light:- Take a destarched potted plant, which has been kept in dark for 3 to 4 days.
Cover one of its leaves completely with a carbon paper so that no light falls on it. Keep the plant in
light for 4 to 6 hours. Test the covered leaf and uncovered leaf for starch with iodine test. The
covered leaf will show negligible amount of starch, while the uncovered leaf will give positive test
for starch. The process clearly shows that light is necessary for photosynthesis.
3) Necessity of Carbon dioxide:-Take two de starched potted plants and cover them with
transparent polythene bags, so that no fresh air enters into them. Keep NaoH (Soda lime) that
would absorb Co2 in one pot and NaHCo (Sodium Bi-Carbonate) solution that would produce
more Co2 in the other pot. Keep both the pots in the sunlight for 4 to 6 hours and test one leaf from
each for starch. The leaf from the first Pot will show no starch due to the absence of Co2, while the
leaf from the second pot will give positive test for the starch, thereby showing that Co2 is
necessary for photosynthesis.
4) Evolution of oxygen:- Take a beaker filled with water . Add a pinch of baking soda (NaHC03) to
it and put a Hydrilla plant (Aquatic plant) in it. Cover the plant with a funnel. Invert a test tube
containing water over the stem of the funnel. Keep this apparatus in the bright sunlight. After some
time bubbles start emerging out from the plant, which gets collected in the upper part of the test
tube. Remove the test tube and test the gas with a lighted splinter, it keeps on glowing showing that
the gas is a supporter of combustion. Thus, the experiment clearly shows that O2 is evolved during
photosynthesis.
RESPIRATION
Respiration is a biochemical process of stepwise oxidative breakdown of organic
compounds inside living cells releasing small packets of energy at various steps. Respiration is an
essential physiological activity of all living organisms by which they obtains energy for carrying
out various vital metabolic activities of the body. However, it is a chemical activity taking place
within the protoplasm of a cell, which results in the liberation of energy. Energy liberated during
oxidative breakdown of respiratory substrate is partly stored in ATP. The rest is dissipated as heat.
The process of respiration involves the following steps.
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enzymes
6C02 + 6H20 + 38 ATP
1) External Respiration or Breathing:- It refers to those mechanism by which air is brought into the
body from the atmosphere and expulsion of Co2 from the body into the atmosphere. The
exchange of the gases takes place at the respiratory surface such as gills, tracheae or lungs.
2) Transport of Respiratory gases:- This phase involves transport of oxygen from respiratory
surface to the body tissue_Co2 from the tissues to the respiratory surface. In higher animals it takes
place mainly through blood.
3) Internal or Tissue Respiration:- This phase of respiration involves consumption of oxygen by
the body cells and production of Co2 as a result of oxidative processes resulting in the liberation of
energy necessary for the biological work of the body.
The distinct phases of respiration are represented in the diagram.
7. Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration:- Sachs (1890) discovered that respiration can occur with or
without oxygen. Therefore, there are two types of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic.
Aerobic Respiration (Gk. Aer-air, bios-life)
It is a multistep complete oxidative breakdown of respiratory substrate into carbon dioxide and
water with the help of oxygen acting as a terminal oxidant. Aerobic respiration is the usual mode of
respiration in all higher organisms and most of the lower organisms. The reason is that it yields
maximum amount of energy.
C6H1206
enzymes
6C02 + 6H20
+ 686 kcal or 2870 kj
The energy is stored in some 38 molecules of ATP. Aerobic respiration occurs in two steps,
glycolysis and Krebs cycle.
Glycolysis (Gk. Glykys- sugar, lysis-breakdown):- Glycolysis or EMP (Embden, Meyerhof and
parnas) pathway is the first step of respiration which is common to both aerobic and anaerobic modes
of respiration. It occurs in cytoplasm. Respiratory substrate is double phosphorylated before it
undergoes lysis to produce 3-carbon compounds glyceraldehydes phosphate. NADH2 and ATP are
produced when glyceraldehyde is changed to pyruvate. The net reaction of glycolysis is:
C6Hi206 + 2ADP + 2Pi + 2NAD +enzymes
in cytoplasm
Krebs Cycle (Krebs, 1940):- It is also known as citric acid cycle or tricarboxlic acid cycle (TCA cycle).
Pyruvic acid or pyrovate enters mitochondria. It undergoes oxidative decarboxylation to produce acetyl
CoA, carbon dioxide and NADH2. Acetyl CoA enters Krebs cycle. Here two decarboxylation, four
dehydrogenations and one phosphorylation or ATP synthesis occur.
Pyruvate + NAD+
+ CoA oxidative
Acetyl CoA + NADH2 + Co2
decarboxylation
Acetyl CoA + 3NAD+
+ FAD CoA + 3NADH2 + FADH2 + 2C02
Krebs cycle
Breathing
O, co2
enzymes
2C3H4O3 + 2ATP + 2NADH2
8. NADH2 and FADH2 liberate electrons and hydrogen ions. They are use in building up ATP
molecules and activating oxygen molecules to combine with hydrogen for forming water. Water
formed in respiration is called metabolic water. As oxygen is used at the end of Krebs cycle for
combining with hydrogen, the process is called terminal oxidation.
The overall equation of aerobic respiration using glucose as substrate is
Glucose in cytoplasm
pyruvate in mitochondria
CO2 +H2O + Energy (38 ATP)
noO
2
requiredO
2
required
Anaerobic Respiration (Gk. An-without, Aer-Air, BOIS- Life):- It is a multi step breakdown of
respiratory substrate in which atleast one end product is organic and which does not employ oxygen
as an oxidant. Anaerobic respiration occurs in many lower organisms, e.g. certain bacteria, yeast. In
human body it occurs regularly in red blood cells and during heavy exercise in muscles (striated
muscles). Anaerobic respiration occurs entirely in the cytoplasm. It has two steps. The first step is
glycolysis. Here, respiratory substrate glucose breakdown into two molecules of pyruvate, ATP and
NADH2. Pyruvate is converted into ethyl alchol (C2H50H) in yeast and certain bacteria. It is changed
to lactic acid (CH3CHOH.COOH). In muscle cells when oxygen utilization is faster than its
availability as during vigorous exercise. It creates an oxygen debt in the body. No such change occurs
in blood corpuscels.
In Yeast
Glucose in cytoplasm
C3H4O3
in cytoplasm
C2H5OH+ C02 + Energy (2 ATP)
no 02 required
Pyruvate no 02 requiredz
Ethanol
In Muscle cells
Glucosein cytoplasm
C3H4O3
in cytoplasm
CH3CHOHCOOH + Energy (2 ATP)
no 02required
Pyruvateno 02required
Lactic Acid
Mechanism of Respiration:- There are different mechanisms for process of respiration in different
form of organism. The mechanisms of respiration in some of organisms may be described as under:-
1. Respiration in simple organisms:- In the simplest forms of life like Amoeba, Euglena,
Paramecium, Algae and Spirogyra, the respiratory gases may diffused in and out of the body
through general body surface.
2. Respiration in Insects: - In insects, respiration of gases takes place through a system of internally
air filled tubules called trachea. These opens into the exterior environment by paired
Difference between Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration
Aerobic Respiration Anaerobic Respiration
It is common method of respiration It occurs permanently only in few organisms. In
other it may occur as a temporary measure to
overcome shortage of oxygen.
It is completed in three steps-glycolysis, Krebs
cycle and terminal oxidation
There are two steps-glycolysis and anaerobic
breakdown of pyruvic acid
It requires oxygen Oxygen is not required
Respiratory substrate is completely broken down Respiratory substrate is incompletely broken down
They are inorganic Atleast one end product is organic. Inorganic
products may or may not be present
End products show little toxicity The organic end product is generally toxic
It occurs partly in cytoplasm and partly in
mitochondria
Anaerobic respiration is carried out entirely in
cytoplasm. Mitochondria are not required
An electron transport chain is required ETC is not required
It in release 686 kcal or 2870 kj of energy per mole
of glucose
Energy liberated is 36-50 kcal or 150-210 kj per
mole of glucose
The liberated energy is used in forming 36-38
ATP molecules per mole of glucose
The liberated energy is used in synthesis of 2ATP
molecules.
9. apertures called as spiracles these tissues carry air directly into the tissues of the body and bring out
carbon dioxide out from them.
3) Respiration in aquatic animals: - In majority of higher aquatic animals like prawns and fish, the
process of respiration or gaseous exchange takes place by a special respiratory organ called as gills. The
gills are made up of a large number of gill plates, which increase surface area of the gills. Each gill is
provided with a large number of membranous gill lamellae the bold of gills absorb dissolved oxygen
from water when it mover over them and carbon dioxide from blood goes out into the water i,e from the
higher concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide towards their lower concentration.
4) Respiration in plants: - In plants the gaseous exchange or respiration takes place through the
stomata of the leaves, lenticels of woody stems and surface of the roots. The diffused air passes through
the stomatal opening into the mesophyll cells of the leaves. Similarly air is diffused inn through the
small microscopic openings in stem and roots of a plant and carbon dioxide is diffused out into the outer
atmosphere or soil.
Mechanism of breathing in man: -
Human beings like other land animals breathe through their noses with the help of pair of lungs
located in an airtight thoracic cavity. The lungs are spongy, air filled sac's, which do not have any
muscle tissue and thus cannot expand or contract at their own. The process of breathing is accomplished
through changes in volume and air pressure of the thoracic cavity. The lungs respond passively to the
pressure changes within a chest cavity due to contraction and relaxation of muscles of ribs and
movements of diaphragm during inspiration and expiration.
In normal breathing, air enters into the nasal chamber
through nose, where it is cleaned and warmed by the ciliated
epithelium. The warmed and cleaned air then passes into the
windpipe or tracheae through larynx and epiglottis. The tracheae
at its lower portion bifurcates into two bronchi, each entering into
a lung lobe, where a bronchus divides extensively by giving out various
small branches called bronchioles. Finally the air is deposited in
microscopic air sacs called alveoli. These are lined by a layer of
epithelial cells and surrounded by a network of blood capillaries. The
air in the lungs diffuses through the walls of these blood capillaries into
the main blood stream and carbon dioxide in turn diffuses out into the
lungs, where from it is expelled out into the external environment. This gaseous exchange is completed
within a few seconds, while the blood is passed through the alveoli.
Diffusion: -The process of movement of molecules from one region to another in accordance to
concentration gradient i.e., from the region of higher concentration to the region of lower concentration
is called as diffusion. It takes place in all kinds of matter i,e solid, liquid and gas, but the process is
faster in gases than solids or liquids.
The process of diffusion is a main method of transport of material in unicellular organisms like
Amoeba, Euglena, Paramecium, Algae and Chlamydomonas etc. and some of the multicellular
organisms like Sponges, Hydra etc.
Osmosis: - When two liquids of different densities are separated from each other by a selectively
permeable membrane, the water of the liquids flows towards the liquid of higher density. This process
in which water moves from a solution of lower density to the solution of lower density to the solution of
higher density or from a dilute to a concentrated solution through a selectively permeable membrane is
called osmosis.
Transportation:- is the movement of materials from one part to another, usually from the region of
their availability to the region of their use, storage or elimination. Transporatation occurs in all
organisms, from microscopic ones to large sized trees and animals.
10. Transport in plants: - Plants absorb sufficient quantity of water from soil by means of root hairs
through the process of osmosis but they also take in minerals by the process of diffusion. Some part of
this water is used up by the plant during various processes and the rest evaporates from the stem and
roots. The evaporation of this surplus water from the aerial parts of a plant is known as transpiration.
In general, transpiration may be cuticular, lenticular or stomatal. The cuticular transpiration
takes place through the cuticle found on the surface of the stem and leaves. The lenticular
transpiration takes place through the lenticels found on the stem. The stomatal transpiration takes
place through the stomata situated on the leaves.
It is through the process of transpiration, that the water along with dissolved mineral salts is
taken up and transported up through the xylem. Evaporation of water from the leaves through stomata
causes a drop in the turgor pressure, which makes the xylem cells to act as a single continues column
and cause uptake of water from the soil.
Xylem (Wood)
It is a complex tissues which transports sap (water and minerals). Xylem has four types of
cell-xylem fibres, xylem parenchyma, tracheids and vessels. Vessels and trancheids are called
tracheary elements because they take part in transport of sap. Vessels are long multicellular tubes
which are formed by end to end union of several cells. Trancheids are elongated cells with pointed
ends. Both the tracheary elements have lignified walls with pits or other thin unlignified areas for
element to element movement of water. Xylem parenchyma takes part in lateral flow of water.
Trancheids are conducting elements of non-flowering plants. Vessels occur mostly in angiosperms
where they form the main conducting elements. The number of tracheids is small in angiosperms.
Phloem
It is complex tissues which takes part in transport of food. Phloem has four types of cells-sieve tubes,
companion cells, phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres. Only phloem fibres are dead cells. Others
are living cells. Sieve tubes are conducting channels of phloem. They are eleongated multicellular
tubular channels formed by end to end union of numerous sieve tube elements. The end walls or septa
between adjacent sieve tube elements are bulged out and have pores. They are called sieve plates.
Sieve tube elements do not have a nucleus. Their functioning is controlled by adjacent nucleated
companion cells.
Transport of Water and Minerals:
There is a continous system of water conducting channels (vessels and tracheids) from near the
root tips to near the shoot tips. In the roots the surface cells are in contact with soil particles and soil
water. Ions and water are absorbed from the soil. They are pulled and pushed up by various forces to
reach every cell requiring the same. The various steps involved in transport of water and minerals are
as follows:
1. Mineral Absorption: It occurs in the growing parts of the root. Both the surface or epiblema
cells as well as root hairs take part in mineral absorption. Mineral absorption is an active
process which involves expenditure of energy. Being an active process, mineral absorption
occurs against concentration gradient. It creates a difference in the concentration of ions
between the roots and the soil, with more salts being present inside the root then in the soil
StfMren.
Difference between Xylem and Phloem
Xylem Phloem
Xylem is water or sap conducting plant tissue. It is food conducting plant tissue.
Xylem has only one type of living cells. It has three types of living cells.
Xylem has three types of dead cells-fibres,
tracheids and vessel elements.
Phloem has only one type of dead cells, i.e., phloem
fibres.
There are two types of conducting elements,
tracheids and vessels.
There are only one type of conducting elements, i.e.,
sieve tubes.
Vessels do not possess septa Sieve tubes have porous septa called sieve plates.
Conduction is not influenced by metabolic
inhibitors like heat, cold or poison.
Conduction is inhibited by heat, cold and poison.
Transport occurs due to presence of negative
pressure.
Transport takes place due to presence of positive
pressure.
11. 2. Absorption of water: Root hair zone is the region of water absorption. The inside of the root
has higher osmotic concentration than the soil solution. Root hairs are in contact with soil
interspaces having capillary water. The root hairs pick up water which is transferred inwardly
due to still high osmotic concentration. It reaches the cells surrounding the xylem channel. Salts
accumulated in the basic part of xylem channel cause osmotic entry of water into xylem and
form column of water. It also creates the positive pressure known as root pressure.
3. Development of negative pressure: Leaves and other aerial parts of the plant are continuously
losing water in the vapour form in the process of transpiration. Nearly 99% of the absorbed
water is lost during transpiration. Major part of transpiration is stomatal transpiration.
Intercellular spaces of the leaves are in contact with mesophyll cells as well as outside air
through stomata. Outside air is seldom saturated with water vapours while the intercellular
spaces are nearly always saturated with water due to evaporation from the wet walls of
mesophyll cells. Therefore, water vapours diffuse from intercellular spaces to outside. More
water vapours come from mesophyll cells to replace them. The process continues. Loss of water
by mesophyll cells increases their suction pressure. They withdraw water from the xylem
channels. As there are billions of mesophyll cells withdrawing water from xylem channels,
water column present in the xylem comes under tension or negative pressure.
Transport of food and other substances
Food materials are translocated from the region of their manufacture or storage to the region of
their utilisation. The region of supply of food is called source while the area of utilisation is called
sink. The direction of translocation can be downward, upward or both. The food manufactured by
leaves spases into the storage region and other sinks in the downward direction as well as towards
growing points and developing fruits in the upward direction. The translocating nutrients consist of
soluble carbohydrates (mostly sucrose), amino acids, organic acids, harmones and other organic
solutes. Translocation occurs thorough phloem. The channels of transport are sieve tubes (sieve cells
in non flowering plants). Sieve tubes are specialised for this purpose. They are devoid of nuclei and
internal membranes. The cytoplasm of one tube cells is continous with that of adjacent sieve tube cells
through sieve plates. The force required for translocation is produced by companion cells which live
adjacent to sieve tube cells.
Translocation:- Translocation is the movement of dissolved substances from one part of plant to
another through the xylem in accordance to the concentration gradient of various mineral salts present
in the soil.
Blood
Blood is described as a connective tissue, which provides one of the means of communication between
the cells of different parts of a body and the external environment. It is a fluid containing living cells,
which are capable of doing metabolic changes. It performs several vital functions of the body and hence
is usually referred as the seat of the soul. Blood constitutes about 7% of the body weight (about 5.6 Lts
in a 80 kg man). This proportion is les in women and considerable greater in children and gradually
decreasing until the adult level is reached.
Composition of the blood: - Blood of higher animals including man is a viscous complex fluid tissue
of red colour. It is made up of two main components viz.
1) Plasma:- Plasma represents an intercellular substance of straw colour. It constitutes about 55% of
the total volume of the blood. Chemically plasma is composed of water (90 - 92%) plasma proteins,
inorganic and organic in salts and a liquid called serum. It also contains a coagulative substance called
fibrinogen and an anticoagulant called heparin or herudin.
2. Formed elements:- The cellular elements constitute about 45% of the total volume of the blood.
These are short and their destruction and replacement goes on constantly during the life of an animal.
These include.
i) Red blood cells of Erythrocytes:- The erythrocytes are produced in the bone marrow of bones. Each
erythrocyte is a round biconvex disc shaped, thinnest at the center having no nuclei at maturity. The
average diameter of each erythrocyte is 10~6
m. The individual erythrocytes are pale yellow in colour,
but in aggregation they appear to be reddish in colour. Each erythrocyte is bounded by a thin membrane
composed of lecithin and cholesterol, enclosing an elastic substance called as stroma and an iron
containing pigment called hemoglobin. The presence of hemoglobin- the red pigment serves as the
carrier of oxygen. The average life span of erythrocytes is about 120 days in mammals, after this time
they are disposed off either by liver or by spleen.
12. ii) White blood cells or Leucocytes:- White blood cells do not contain any pigment and are therefore
colourless. They are larger, and fewer in number than the RBC's (1:600). They are formed in red bone
marrow and in the lymph glands. The average life span of human leucocytes is about 12 to 13 days. The
chief function of WBC's is to provide immunity to the body by producing special proteins called
antibodies, which protects body against the infection of bacteria, viruses and debris etc.
The mature white blood cells are grouped in to two main categories, granulocytes or granular
leucocytes and agranulocytes or angranular leucocytes depending upon the presence of visible granules
in their cytoplasm. The granulocytes are in turn of three types viz. Eiosinophyll, Basinophyll and
neutrophyll and the agranulocytes are of two types viz lymphocytes and monocytes.
iii) Blood platelets:- These are small, flat granular corpuscles or colourless cells, which are smaller
than RBC. These are probably formed in the red bone marrow and contain a substance called
thromboplast in which it acts as one of the enzymes involved in the series of chemical changes resulting
in the clotting of blood at the site of an injury. The life span of these corpuscles is only 2-3 days. Hence
these are constantly replenished by red bone marrow cells called as Megakaryocytes.
Function of Blood:- Blood has many functions, the most important ones are summarized as under:-
1. Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide: - Blood transports oxygen from the respiratory surface
and thus helps in respiration.
2. Transport of food: - Blood carries soluble food from the intestine to the liver and body cells, where
it is required for cellular activities. The nutritive substances transported by the blood are glucose, amino
acids, fats, minerals vitamins and water
3. Transport of waste products: - Blood transports various waste products, produced during the
cellular activities of the body. These waste products are harmful and require immediate elimination.
4. Chemical Co-ordination:- Blood distributes various harmones to different parts of the body. These
harmones are produced by the endocrine glands of the body and helps in the co-ordination of the body.
5. Maintenance of pH:- The plasma proteins of the blood act as buffer system and prevent any shift in
the pH of the blood because of the amphoteric properties of these proteins.
6. Water balance:- Blood maintains water balance in the blood by bringing about constant exchange
of water between the circulating blood and the tissue fluids.
7. Transport of heat: - Blood allows transfer of heat energy from the deeper tissue to the surface of the
body.
8. Defense against infection:- Blood protects the body from various infections caused by the
microorganisms like bacteria, viruses etc. with the help of WBC's.
9. Temperature Regulation: - Blood maintains the body temperature by distributing heat within the
body.
10. Blood loss:- Blood prevents excessive loss of blood in an injury with the process of blood
coagulation.
The Tubes-Blood Vessels
Human blood flows inside tubes caleed blood vessels. Blood vessels are of three types- arteries,
veins and capillaries.
Arteries: They are blood vessels which carry blood coming from heart to various organs of the body.
Blood flows inside the arteries with jerks due to pumping activity of the heart. As the blood is pumped
into an artery, it expands. With the flow of blood from it, the artery contracts partially. Arteries,
generally, carry oxygenated blood. Only pulmonary arteries transport deoxygenated blood from heart to
lungs. The wall of the arteries is thick and elastic.
Veins: They are blood vessels which carry blood from various parts of the body towards the heart.
Blood flows smoothly and slowly inside veins. Internal valves prevent back flow. Wall is less thickened
and less elastic as compared to that of arteries. Lumen is wide. Veins carry deoxygenated blood except
pulmonary veins that bring oxygenated blood from lungs to the heart. Veins are generally superficial.
13. Capillaries: They are very narrow blood vessels (4-10 um) having a single layered wall (endothelium),
which form network inside body organs. Movement of blood is very slow (1 mm/sec) so as to provide
time for exchange of materials. The wall has very fine pores for exchange of substances between blood
and tissue fluid.
Double Circulation
It is a passage of the same blood twice through the heart first on the right side, then on the left
side in order to complete one cycle. Double circulation has two components, pulmonary circulation and
systemic circulation.
(i) Pulmonary Circulation: It is movement of blood from heat to
the lungs and back. Deoxygenated blood of the body enters the right auricle, passes into right
ventricle which pumps it into pulmonary arch. With the help of two separate pulmonary
arteries the blood passes into the lungs. Here the arteries break up into arterioles and then
capillaries for oxygenation. Capillaries join to form venules and then veins. Oxygenated
blood comes back to left auricle of heart through four
pulmonary veins, two from each lung.
(ii) Systemic Circulation: It is the circulation of blood between
heart and different parts of the body except lungs.
Oxygenated blood received by left auricle passes into left
ventricle. The left ventricle pumps it into aorta for supply
to different body parts including walls of the heart with
the help of arteries. Inside the organs the arteries break up
into arterioles and then capillaries. Capillaries provide
oxygen and nutrients to tissues. They receive carbon
dioxide and wastes from the tissues. Capillaries unite to
form venules which join to produce veins. Veins take the
deoxygenated blood which comes back to the heart but now into the right auricle.
Heart
Structure of the human heart: - The human heart is a cone shaped, muscular organ situated under the
breastbone and between the lungs inside the thoracic cavity. It is of
the size of human fist and lies slightly towards the left side of the
chest cavity. It is divided into four chambers having two atria and two
ventricles. The two halves are separated by a thick wall called
septum. Each half is composed of two chambers, a relatively thin
walled auricle and thick muscular ventricle. Each atrium opens into a
ventricle of its own side through an atrio ventricular aperture. The
two apertures are guarded by valves, which opens only in the
ventricle and prevents the backward flow of the blood. The left
atrium and ventricle are separated by a pair of flaps called the
Bicuspid or Mitral valve. Similarly the right auricle and ventricle are
separated by three flaps called Tricuspid or Mitral valve. The atrium
receives the blood from veins and on contraction forces it in to the
ventricle, whichin turn contracts simultaneously and forces the blood
into the arteries. When the ventricles relax, the semi lunar valves of these arteries are closed to prevent
backward flow of the blood into the ventricles.
Circulation of blood through heart: - The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the body
mainly through two vessels or venacavas. From the right atrium blood passes through the tricuspid
valve into the right ventricle. When the right ventricle contracts, the blood is forced into the pulmonary
artery, which carries it to the lungs for oxygenation. After oxygenation, it is returned back to the heart
through the pulmonary vein, which opens into the left atrium. The left atrium passes the blood into the
left ventricle through the bicuspid valve. The ventricle on contraction passes this oxygenated blood into
the aorta for distribution to all parts of the body.
14. The heart contracts about 72 times in the similar fashion in one minute and the total volume of
the blood pumped out by the heart in every minute varies approximately in between 5 - 6 liters.
However, the course of blood circulation in man can be represented as under: -
Oxygenated blood --------► Left atrium -------- ► Left ventricle-------► Aorta-------- ►
Arterioles Organs ---------- ► Venous capillaries-------► Venules(Deoxygenated blood)
-------- ► Veins -------► R.Auricle -------► R. Ventricle------ ► Pulmonary artery ------►
Lungs (For oxygenation) -------- ► Pulmonary veins ------- ► Left atrium
Arterial Blood Pressure: - It is the pressure exerted by the blood on the wall of the blood vessels in
which it is present. It is of two types: -
a) Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) : - It is the pressure which the blood exerts on the wall of the blood
vessels at the end of systolic contraction of ventricles. In a normal resting adult, it is about 120 mm Hg.
b) Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP): - It is pressure, which the blood exerts on the wall of the arteries
when the ventricles are maximally relaxed. In normal resting adult, it is about 80 mm Hg. Blood
Note: - (Blood Pressure in a normal person is equal 120/80mm Hg)
Lymph: - The tissue fluid that bathes the cells is collected in tubes and is then called as lymph. It is
filtered the blood plasma through the capillaries. Although partly reabsorbed into the capillaries, most
of it flows into a system of fine channels, which repeatedly join together to form a large duct and
ultimate the fluid is returned into the blood stream. This additional system of vessels is called as
lymphatic system. It runs parallel to the veins and forms another medium of circulation in the human
body. The lymph is light yellow in colour and similar in composition to the blood plasma. It is not only
found in the lymphatic vessels and bathing the cells of the body, but also in the various cavities of the
body, such as the Coelomic cavity, Pleural cavity, Pericardial cavity etc. where it serves as a lubricant.
Functions of lymph: - The chief functions of lymph in the human body are mentioned as under:
1. It serves as a lubricant for the cells and tissues of the body.
2. It serves to return the interstitial fluid into blood
3. It gives the blood macromolecules of plasma proteins.
4. It carries absorbed fats and lipids from small intestines to the blood.
Excretion: - It is a process of removal of the various toxic waste products from the body, produced in
the different metabolic processes, undergoing inside the body of an organism,. It eliminates solid, liquid
and gaseous waste products produced in the metabolism and thus maintains the relative constancy of the
body's internal environment without which life is impossible.
Organs of excretion: - The chief organs of excretion include: -
1. Skin: - It excretes out various dissolved salts along with surplus water from the body. The process
takes place through the minute microscopic pores of the skin mainly in the form of sweat and is referred
to as perspiration.
Lungs: - These expel out the gaseous wastes like carbon dioxide produced during the cellular
respiration in the body through the process referred to as expiration.
3. Kidneys: - These excrete out nitrogenous wastes produced in the body like ammonia, urea and uric
acid during various metabolic processes. These are excreted out mainly in the form of urine.
4. Large intestine: - It excretes out the solid wastes like undigested components of the food material
produced during the process of digestion. These excreted or defecated out through the anus.
5 Excretory system of man: - The excretory system of man consists mainly of two kidneys, two
ureters, a urinary bladder and a urethra as shown under in the diagram.
Kidney
Structure of human kidneys: - The human kidneys are reddish brown-paired structure, which lie
along the posterior side of the abdominal wall on either side of the vertebral column. Each kidney is
bean shaped about 10cm long, 6cm wide and 4cm broad. Each kidney is enclosed in a thin, tough,
fibrous, whitish capsule. The outer surface of each kidney is convex while the inner one is concave. The
inner side of kidney is composed of two main regions, a dark outer region called cortex and a
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lighter inner zone called medulla. The cortex contains uriniferous tubules or nephron, which
manufacture the urine; the medulla contains conical projections called renal pyramids
containing tubules, which carry urine from nephron to the pelvis of the kidney. From this region,
the urine is taken to the urinary bladder through a long tuber called ureters as shown in the
diagram.
Structure of Nephron: - The nephron forms the functional unit
of the kidneys. Its one end is modified into a cup shaped cavity
called Bowman's capsule, which is linked by a small single layer
of squamous epithelial cells. The rest of the nephron is
differentiated into a coiled proximal convoluted tubule, a
U-shaped loop of henle and a distal convoluted tubule. The distal
tubule opens into a branching system of collecting tubules,
which finally opens into a funnel shaped renal pelvis.
Each nephron maintains a close contact with the blood vessels. It filters and removes the
wastes from the blood, which is partially stored in renal pelvis. The urine so formed is then
passed out through a long narrow tube called ureters and stored in a sac called urinary bladder,
where from it is excreted out of the body through urethra.
Process of Mechanism of excretion: - The entire process of excretion involves three main
processes viz.
Glomerular filtration:- When the blood enters into the glomerulus through the afferent
arteriole, a part of the water and some dissolved constituent of the blood of low molecular
weight like nitrogenous waste, glucose and mineral salts filter out through the capillary walls
into the surrounding Bowman's capsule by a process referred to as Glomerular filtration. The
filtered fluid or glomerular filtrate resembles the blood plasma in its chemical composition
except for the absence of large molecules.
In man, about 180 liters of fluid is filtered from the blood plasma through glomerular
capillary walls every 24 hours.
Tabular Reabsorption:- The glomerular filtrate flows on through the convoluted tubes,
collecting tubule and then into the pelvis of the kidney and down the ureters into the urinary
bladder. As the filtrate flows the proximal convoluted tubule some water and physiologically
important salts like glucose, amino acids, sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate are
reabsorbed into the blood through the capillaries around this portion leaving only the wastes to
be excreted out.
Active secretion: - As the glomerular filtrate flows through the distal convoluted tubule, the
unwanted substances, which could not be filtered out in the glomerular are actively secreted out
by the tubular walls into the filtrate from the blood.
As a result of this entire process, homeostasis of the blood is maintained and all the waste
products remained in the tubular fluid constitute the urine, which is ready for excretion from the
body.
Haemodialysis: - In patients suffering from renal failure or nephritis, artificial measures are
adopted for removing the accumulated waste products like urea from the blood. This process is
called Haemodialysis and the apparatus used in this process as artificial kidney.
In Haemodialysis, the blood of the patient is taken out from the main artery and cooked to
00C. then an anticoasulant (heparin) is mixed with it and Dumped into the apparatus. Inside the
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18. blood flows through tubes bounded by cellophane membrane, which is permeable to only small
molecules like urea, uric acid, creatanin and mineral ions. The dialyzing fluid used in the apparatus a
salt solution isotonic to blood plasma, so that the blood flowing through the channels or tubules
containing wastes like urea, uric acid, creataninetc diffuses out in the dialyzing fluid across the
cellophane membrane. This process is called dialysis. Finally the blood coming out of artificial kidney
is warmed to body temperature and mixed with ant- heparin to restore its normal coagulability and then
pumped into the body of the patient through a vein.
Mechanism of Excretion in plants:-
Plants do not have any mechanism to collect, transport and throw out their waste products. They
have adopted varied strategies to protect their living cells from waste products,
(i) Old leaves: Waste products are stored in older leaves which soon fall off.
(ii) Old Xylem: Resins, gums, tannins and other waste products are deposited in the old xylem
which soon becomes nonfunctional, e.g., heart wood.
(iii) Bark: Bark consists of dead cells which is peeled off periodically. Tannins and other
wastes are deposited in the bark. Incidentally, tannins are raw material for dyes and inks.
(iv) Central Vacuole: Most plant waste products are stored in central vacuole of their cells.
They are unable to influence the working of cytoplasm due to presence of a selectively
permeable membrane called tonoplast.
(v) Root Excretion: Some waste substances are actually excreted by the plant in the region of
their roots.
(vi) Detoxification: The toxic oxalic acid is detoxified by formation of calcium oxalate which
getscrytallised into needles (raphides), prisms (prismatic crystals), stars (sphaeraphides) and
crystal sand. Excess of calcium is also precipitated as calcium carbonate crystals, e.g.,
cystolith.
(vii) Salt Glands: They excrete excess salts obtained from the habitat. Hydathodes also have an
excretory function.