Life Processes-1 Nutrition, Transportation and Excretion
NIOS · Class 10 · Science & Tech
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What to Focus On
- Food provides energy, supports growth and repair, and helps in enzyme and hormone production.
- Nutrition means obtaining food, converting it into simple absorbable forms, and using it in the body.
- Autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition are the two main modes of nutrition.
- Photosynthesis is the process of making food in green plants.
- It needs carbon dioxide, water, sunlight, and chlorophyll.
- Oxygen is released as a by-product.
- Carbohydrates and fats are energy-yielding nutrients.
- Proteins are body-building nutrients.
- Vitamins and minerals are growth-regulating nutrients.
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Breathing and respiration are the same thing.
Blood group AB is the universal donor and blood group O is the universal recipient.
The pulmonary artery carries oxygenated blood and the pulmonary vein carries deoxygenated blood, just like other arteries and veins.
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Meaning of nutrition
Five steps of nutrition
Types of nutrition
Holozoic nutrition
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