Nutrition in Animals: by Sanjana R 7 B

NUTRITION IN
ANIMALS
By Sanjana R 7B
Nutrition In Animals
Animals cannot make their own food
because they don’t have green pigments
named chlorophyll.
 Animals depend on plants or other animals
for their food.
Different ways of taking food
Bees and humming birds suck the
nectar from the plants. [Sucking]
Infants of human and many other

animals feed on mother’s milk.
Snakes and pythons swallow their food.

[Swallowing]
Aquatic animals feed on tiny food

particles floating on the water.
Digestion in humans
We take in food through the mouth, digest it
and utilize it. The food passes through a
continuous canal called the alimentary
canal.
1. The Mouth and The Buccal Cavity

2. Teeth
3. Food pipe [Oesophagus]
4. Stomach
5. Small Intestine
6. Large Intestine
7. The Anus.
Ingestion
Digestion
Absorption
Assimilation
Egestion
The Mouth And The Buccal
Cavity
The process of taking food into the body is

called ingestion.
 We chew the food with the teeth and
break it into small pieces.
Mouth
TEETH
TEETH
 Human Beings have four types of teeth:-
 Incisors
 Canines
 Premolars
 Molars
INCISORS
CANINES
PREMOLAR
S
MOLARS
The Foodpipe or Oesophagus
The swallowed food passes

into the Food Pipe or
Oesophagus.
It goes straight and joins the
stomach.
The Stomach
The inner lining of the stomach secrets

mucous,hydrochloric acid & digestive
juices.
These juices break down the proteins into
simpler substances.
The Small Intestine
. It receives Bile juice from the liver,
Pancreatic juice from Pancreas and its wall
also secrets juices.
Absorption in Small Intestine
The digested food can now pass into the

blood vessels in the wall of the intestine
called as absorption.
 The inner walls of the small intestine
have thousands of small finger like
outgrowths called villi.
Each villus has a network of thin and
small blood vessels close to its surface.
The absorbed substances are transported
via the blood vessels to different organs of the
body.
 They are used to build complex substances
such as the proteins required by the body.
This is called as assimilation.
The Large Intestine
 Its function is to absorb water and some

salts from digested food material.
The remaining wastes pass into the rectum
and remain there as semi solid faeces
The Rectum And The Anus
The remaining food passed from the large

intestine remains here in the rectum as semi
solid faeces.
 The faecal matter is removed through anus
from time to time .This is known as Egestion.
Digestion In Ruminants
Animals like cow buffalo and other grass

eating animals are called as ruminants.
These animals swallow the grass and store
it in a part of the stomach called rumen.
Here the food gets partially digested and is
called cud.
 But later the cud returns to the mouth in
small lumps and the animal chews it.
 This process is called rumination
Nutrition In Amoeba
Amoeba is a microscopic single –celled
organism found in pond water.
 Amoeba has a cell membrane, a rounded,
dense nucleus and many small bubble-like
vacuoles in its cytoplasm
Diagram Of Nutrition in
Amoeba
Nutrition In Hydra
 Hydra is a multicellular organism that
has tentacles attached to its body.
 These tentacles are finger like
projections, which catch the prey to
digest it using enzymes present and
absorbs the required nutrients.
Nutrition In Hydra
Nutrition In Frog
 Frog, has a sticky tongue which helps it
to catch insects.
 As soon as the prey comes near the frog
uses its long tongue to catch it and then
pulls it into its mouth..
 Then it digests it using digestive juices.
Nutrition In Frog
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FROG
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Nutrition In Some Other
Animals.
 A paramecium eats its food by using finger
like projections called Cilia.
 A Butterfly, sucks the nectar from flowers
by using a tube like structure called
proboscis.
 A mosquito also uses its proboscis to suck
blood
 A spider weaves a web in which the insects
or prey get trapped. The spider then digests
the insect by using digestive juices.
NOW TIME
FOR SOME
QUESTIONS
MCQ’s—4M
1.Which one of the following is not a part of human
digestive system
[a]Stomach [b]Liver [c] Kidney
2.Name the organ which is used by amoeba to catch its

food
[a]Tentacles [b]Pseudopodia [c]Cilia
3.The process of taking food inside the body by an

animal is known as
[a]Ingestion [b]Digestion [c]Absorption
4.Food is mixed with Saliva in ___________

[a]Stomach [b] Mouth [c]Oesophagus
THANK
YOU

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NUTRITION IN

Infants of human and many other

Snakes and pythons swallow their food.

Aquatic animals feed on tiny food

1. The Mouth and The Buccal Cavity

The process of taking food into the body is

The swallowed food passes

The inner lining of the stomach secrets

The digested food can now pass into the

 Its function is to absorb water and some

The remaining food passed from the large

Animals like cow buffalo and other grass

2.Name the organ which is used by amoeba to catch its

3.The process of taking food inside the body by an

4.Food is mixed with Saliva in ___________

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