raw food and enzymes

Forms of biomass listed below may be used along with water: Animal dung Poultry wastes Plant wastes ( Husk, grass, weeds etc.) Human excreta Industrial wastes(Saw dust, wastes from food processing industries) Domestic wastes (Vegetable peels, waste food materials..

Forms of biomass listed below may be used along with water. Animal dung Poultry wastes Plant wastes ( Husk, grass, weeds etc.) Human excreta Industrial wastes(Saw dust, wastes from food processing industries) Domestic wastes (Vegetable peels, waste food materia..

This oxidation reaction is called the combustion of food. The above reaction occurs in several small steps and the temperature does not become excessive as we observe during combustion reaction in a flame. The combustion of food is slow and so the heat liberated is so slow that ..

The table shows the fat content in various food items. Pick an appropriate bar graph for the data. Fat contents of some food items Food items Fat (in grams) Raw clams 2 Fish sticks 10 Canned tuna 8 Lean ground beef 6 Lamb chop 4 Canned Ham 2 => Graph 4 or Gra..

Plants may be able to obtain raw materials and prepare their own organic food or can be dependent on others (dead or living) for the same. They are respectively known as autotrophic (autos = self, trophien = to nourish) and heterotrophic (heteros - other, trophien - to nouris..

Photosynthesis is the only process which produces enormous quantities of organic matter for sustaining the life on this globe. It is the only known method of manufacture of organic food from inorganic raw materials. Animals including man are directly or indirectly dependen..

'Sapros' refers to rotten and 'trophic' refers to food. Saprotrophic nutrition is the process by which the organisms feed on dead and decaying matter. The food is digested outside the cells or even the body of the organism - extracellular digestion. The organism secretes digest..

The food is digested outside the cells or even the body of the organism - extracellular digestion. The organism secretes digestive juices that contain enzymes directly on to the food..

Jan Baptista van Helmont discovered the presence of carbon dioxide in the year 1630. Although the percentage of carbon dioxide in air is very small, it plays a vital role in nature. All the food that is produced on the earth is by photosynthesis, which employs carbon dioxide as the ..

Breaking down food into simpler forms is called digestion. Digestion is both mechanical and chemical . In mechanical digestion, food is physically broken down into smaller particles by processes such as chewing. Chemical digestion makes use of certain chemicals called ..