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Life Process Notes for Class 10 Biology : Nutrition

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Life Process: Nutrition (life_process1.php) | Life Process: Nutrition in plants (life_process2.php) |
Life Process: Nutrition in Animals (life_process3.php) | Life Process: Respiration in Plants (life_process4.php) |
Life Process: Respiration in Animals (life_process5.php)

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These are the CBSE class 10 biology notes on chapter Life Process Topics covered in this page are

1. Introduction
2. Types of Life Processes
3. Nutrition
4. Mode of Nutrition
5. Autotrophic Nutrition
6. Heterotrophic Nutrition
7. Types of Heterotrophic NUtrition

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Introduction

All the plants and animals are alive or living things.

The most important criterion to decide whether something is alive or not is the movement.
The movements in animals are fast and can be observed easily but the movements in plants are slow and observed with difficulty.
Animals can move from one place to another or they can move their body parts.
The plants can only move parts of their body such as leaves, flowers, roots and shoots.

Life Processes
The basic functions performed by living organisms to maintain their life on this earth are called life processes.
Basic life processes common to all living organisms are:
Basic life processes Function

Taking of food inside the body and converting it into

Nutrition smaller molecules which can be absorbed by the
body.

The process which releases energy from the food

Respiration
absorbed by the body.

The process in which a substance absorbed or

Transport made in one part of the body is moved to other
parts of the body.

The process in which the waste materials produced

Excretion
in the cells of the body are removed from the body.

A process which helps the living organisms to

Control and coordination
survive in the changing environment around them.

The process involves the changes from a smaller

Growth
organism to a big organism.

The organism either moves from one place to

Movement
another or moves its body parts.

The process involves the making of more organisms

Reproduction
form the existing once.

All the living organisms need energy to perform various life processes. They get this energy from food. Food is a kind of fuel
which provides energy to all the living organisms.

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Food is an organic substance. The simplest food is glucose Lifecalled
also processsimple
biologysugar.
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A more complex food is starch. It is made from glucose.

The general name of substances like glucose and starch is ‘carbohydrates’.

Nutrient: A nutrient can be defined as a substance which an organism obtains from its surroundings and uses it as a source of energy
or for the biosynthesis of its body constituents.
Example: carbohydrates and fats are the nutrients which are used by the organism mainly as a source of energy.
Proteins and mineral salts are nutrients used by organism for the biosynthesis of its body constituents like skin, blood, etc.
Nutrition:
Nutrition is the process of intake of nutrients (like carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins and water) by an organism
as well as the utilization of these nutrients by the organism.
Mode of Nutrition:
Mode of nutrition means method of obtaining food by an organism. There are mainly two modes of nutrition:
1. Autotrophic mode of nutrition
2. Heterotrophic mode of nutrition

Autotrophic mode of nutrition: (‘auto’ means ‘self’ and ‘trophe’ means ‘nutrition’)
Autotrophic nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism makes (or synthesizes) its own food from the simple inorganic
materials like carbon dioxide and water present in the surroundings (with the help of sunlight energy).
Those organisms which can make their own food from carbon dioxide and water are called autotrophs.
Example: all green plants, autotrophic bacteria.
Autotrophs make their food by photosynthesis.

Heterotrophic mode of nutrition: (‘heteros’ means ‘others’ and ‘trophe’ means ‘nutrition’)

Heterotrophic nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism cannot make (or synthesizes) its own food from simple inorganic
materials like carbon dioxide and water, and depends on other organisms for its food.
Those organisms which cannot make their own food from inorganic substances like carbon dioxide and water, and depends on other
organisms for their food are called heterotrophs.
Example: all the animals (man, dog, cat, lion, etc.), most bacteria and fungi.

Types of Heterotrophic Nutrition:

Heterotrophic mode of nutrition is of three types:

1. Saprotrophic (saprophytic) nutrition
2. Parasitic nutrition
3. Holozoic nutrition

Saprotrophic nutrition:

Saprotrophic nutrition is that nutrition in which an organism obtains its food from decaying organic matter of dead plants, dead animals
and rotten bread, etc.
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Example: Fungi (liker bread moulds, mushrooms), and many bacteria.

Parasitic nutrition:

The parasitic nutrition is that nutrition in which an organism derives its food from the body of another living organisms without killing it.
A parasite is an organism (plant or animal) which feed on another living organism called its host.
Example: some animals like Plasmodium and roundworms, a few plants like Cuscuta (amarbel) and several fungi and bacteria.

Holozoic nutrition:

The holozoic nutrition is that nutrition in which an organism takes the complex organic food materials into its body by the process of
ingestion, the ingested food is digested and then absorbed into the body cells of the organism.
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Example: human beings and most of the animal. Class 10 Life process biology notes on nutrition

Test Your understanding

1. ______ process in which a substance absorbed or made in one part of the body is moved to other parts of the body.

2. ______ process in which the __________________ materials produced in the cells of the body are removed from the body.

3. The simplest food is glucose also called simple __________________ and A more complex food is called
__________________ and they together are called as ________.

4. A __________________ can be defined as a substance which an organism obtains from its surroundings and uses it as a
source of energy or for the biosynthesis of its body constituents.

5. __________________ nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism makes its own food from the simple inorganic
materials like $CO_2$ and $H_20$ present in the surroundings (with the help of sunlight energy) and Those organisms are
called _________.

6. A __________________ is an organism (plant or animal) which feed on another living organism called its host.

7. _______ process involves the making of more organisms form the existing once.

8. The __________________ nutrition is that nutrition in which an organism takes the complex organic food materials into its
body by the process of ingestion, the ingested food is digested and then absorbed into the body cells of the organism.

9.Food is a kind of fuel which provides energy to all the __________________ organisms.

10. __________________ nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism cannot make (or synthesizes) its own food
from simple inorganic materials like $CO_2$ and $H_20$ , and depends on other organisms for its food and Those organisms
are called _________.
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