Digestion and Absorption

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Question
CBSEENBI11002217

Anxiety and eating spicy food together in an otherwise normal human may lead to

  • Vomiting

  • Indigestion

  • Jaundice

  • Diarrhoea

Solution

B.

Indigestion

Unhealthy eating habits together with anxiety, stress or panic attacks may cause indigestion, stomach ache, stomach palpitations, nausea, vomit, etc.

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Question
CBSEENBI11002320

Gastric juice of infants contains

  • maltase, pepsinogen, rennin

  • nuclease, pepsinogen, lipase

  • pepsinogen, lipase, rennin

  • amylase, rennin, pepsinogen

Solution

C.

pepsinogen, lipase, rennin

Gastric juice of infants contains pepsinogen, lipase, rennin. It's pH varies from 7.5 and 8.5. Rennin is a proteolytic enzyme synthesised by stomach. Its role is to curdle or cogulate milk. Therefore, it is present in infants because they feed on milk but is absent in adults.

Question
CBSEENBI11002043

In the stomach, gastric acid is secreted by the

  • parietal cells

  • peptic cells

  • acidic cells

  • gastrin-secreting cells

Solution

A.

parietal cells

The parietal cells secrete HCl in the stomach. 

Question
CBSEENBI11002380

One of the constituents of the pancreatic juice while poured into the duodenum in humans, is

  • Trypsinogen

  • chymotrypsin

  • trypsin

  • enterokinase

Solution

A.

Trypsinogen

Trypsinogen is the precursor form or zymogen of the pancreatic enzyme trypsin. It is found in pancreatic juice, along with amylase. lipase and chymotrypsinogen. It is activated by enteropeptidase which is found in the intestinal mucosa, to form trypsin.

Question
CBSEENBI11002103

Select the correct match of the digested products in humans given in column I with their absorption site and mechanism in column (II).

  • Column I

    Column II

    Glycine and glucose

    Small intestine and active absorption

  • Column I

    Column II

    Fructose and Na+

    Small intestine passive absorption

    Column I

    Column II

    Glycine and glucose

    Small intestine and active absorption

  • Column I

    Column II

    Glycerol and Fatty acids

    Duodenum and move as chilomicrons

  • Column I

    Column II

    Cholesterol and maltose

    Large intestine and active absorption

Solution

A.

Column I

Column II

Glycine and glucose

Small intestine and active absorption

Amino acids monosaccharides like glucose, electrolytes like Na+ are absorbed into the blood by active transport. Fructose and some amino acids are absorbed with the help of the carrier ions like Na+ by facilitated transport. Fatty acid and glycerol cannot be absorbed into the blood. They are first incorporated into small droplets called micelles, which move into the intestinal mucosa.