NCERT Question 1 - Chapter 2 Class 7 - Nutrition in Animals

Fill in the blanks:

(a) The main steps of digestion in humans are __________, __________, __________, _________ and __________.

(b) The largest gland in the human body is __________.

(c) The stomach releases hydrochloric acid and ___________ juices which act on food.

(d) The inner wall of the small intestine has many finger-like outgrowths called _________.

(e) Amoeba digests its food in the ____________ .

Answer:

(a)

The steps involved in animal nutrition are:

ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion

(b) Liver is the largest gland in the human body.

(c) digestive 

(d) villi

(e) food vacuole