Human Nutrition

Question 1

What are carbs used for?

Answer 1

Imediate and a store of energy

Question 2

Where are lipids found

Answer 2

Plants, oils, meat, fish, nuts, dairy

Question 3

What are lipids used as?

Answer 3

Energy storage, insulation, cell membranes

Question 4

Where is protein found

Answer 4

Meat, fish, nuts, pulses

Question 5

What is protein used for?

Answer 5

Creations of new proteins, growth, repair

Question 6

Where is fibre found?

Answer 6

Leafy vegetable?

Question 7

What is fibre used for?

Answer 7

Digestive transit

Question 8

Where is vitamin C found?

Answer 8

Fruit

Veg

Question 9

What is vitamin C used for?

Answer 9

The immune system

Connective tissue

Question 10

Where is vitamin D found?

Answer 10

Animal protein

Sunlight

Question 11

What is vitamin D used for?

Answer 11

Fixing calcium to form bones

Question 12

Where is iron found?

Answer 12

Meat

Leafy vegetables

Question 13

What is iron used for?

Answer 13

Production of haemoglobin

Question 14

Where is calcium found?

Answer 14

Meat
Dairy
Pulses

Question 15

What is calcium used for?

Answer 15

Bones

Question 16

What is on the human alimentary canal?

Answer 16

Mouth
Stomach
Pancreas
Liver
Small intestine
Large intestine
Salivary glands
Oesophagus
Gall bladder

Question 17

What is ingestion?

Answer 17

Taking in substances through the mouth

Question 18

What is mechanical digestion?

Answer 18

Breakdown of food into smalle pieces with a chemical change

Question 19

What is chemical digestion?

Answer 19

Breakdown of large insoluble molecules into smaller soluble molecules

Question 20

What is absorption?

Answer 20

Movement of small food molecules and ions through the intestine wall into the blood

Question 21

What is assimilation?

Answer 21

Movement of digested food molecules into the cells they are used

Question 22

What is egestion?

Answer 22

Passing of food that hasn’t been digested, as faeces, through the anus

Question 23

What do salivary glands contain?

Answer 23

Amylase

Question 24

What is the initial part of the small intestine?

Answer 24

Duodenum

Question 25

Where is the small intestine?

Answer 25

Inside the large intestine

Question 26

What is the pH inside the pancreas?

Answer 26

8

Question 27

What does the pancreas secrete?

Answer 27

Amylase
Trypsin
Lipases

Hydrogen carbonate

Question 28

What does amylase do in the small intestine?

Answer 28

Starch - simpler sugars

Question 29

What does protease do in the small intestine?

Answer 29

Protein - amino acids

Question 30

What does lipase do in the small intestine?

Answer 30

Fats - fatty acids + glycerol

Question 31

What are symptoms of kwashiorkor?

Answer 31

Fat accumulation in the liver
Sparse, dry hair
Shaky skin
Swelling of legs and abdomen

Question 32

Symptoms of Marusmus?

Answer 32

Low body mass
Thin arms, legs
Little muscle and fat
Old-looking face

Question 33

How many premolars do adults have?

Answer 33

8

Question 34

How many molars do adults have?

Answer 34

12

Question 35

What do villi shook like?

Answer 35

Finger-like projections

Question 36

What is an epithelial cell?

Answer 36

They line the villi

Question 37

What does the microvilli do?

Answer 37

They also line the villi, they increase the surface area

Question 38

What prevents constipation?

Answer 38

Fibre

Question 39

Where are carbs found

Answer 39

Sugary, starchy foods