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Types of nutrition: autotrophic and heterotrophic; categories of digestion: intracellular and extracellular with a detailed account of the human digestive system including alimentary canal and associated glands. Biochemical reactions with the digestive juices and enzymes covering taste buds, oesophagus, stomach, intestines; liver and pancreas. Diagrammatic study with all the equations for clear understanding of food breakdown in digestive processes. Interconversion of foods as part of absorption and assimilation. Digestive disorders like jaundice, constipation, diarrhoea, vomiting, PEM. An interesting and fascinating account about the process of nutrition and digestion in mammals. Important for students of Medical, Biology, Life Sciences and general insight into our body functions.

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BIOLOGY

DIGESTION AND
ABSORPTION.

, Types of nutrition
Autotrophic
Only plants are capable of HETEROTROPHIC
combining simple inorganic Heterotrophic nutrition is
substances into complex the mode of nutrition
organic ones capable of
sustaining life. An organism where the organism is
which can carry out this unable to prepare its
method of nutrition is said food and hence, depends
to be autotrophic which upon plants or other
means self-feeding. There are organisms for nutrition.
two types of autotrophic
nutrition, chemosynthesis
and photosynthesis

, DIGESTION

Q)What do you mean by digestion?

Digestion involves splitting of food
molecules by hydrolysis into smaller
molecules that can be absorbed through
the epithelium of the gastro intestinal
tract.

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Edition: 2014 ISBN: 9788131241653 Edition: Unknown

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