Nutrition – Online MCQs Test – Biology 9th

1. Number of essential amino acids is:

2. Green plants are:

3. The pouch at the beginning of the large intestine that joins the small intestine to the large intestine is called:

4. At the end of the oesophagus, a muscle that allows food to enter the stomach and preventing food to flow back into the oesophagus is called:

5. Biles salts act on:

6. In plants, interveinal chlorosis shows deficiency of:

7. It plays a very important role to prevent from constipation.

8. Which of the following statements describes pepsin?

9. In plants, it is required for the production of chlorophyll, nucleic acids and enzymes.

10. Stomach is protected against the action of acid by:

11. Moulds, mushrooms and yeasts are common examples of:

12. It is the mode of nutrition in which an organism makes its own food from the simple inorganic materials.

13. Goiter is caused by an insufficient amount of:

14. In this type of nutrition, complex organic substances are taken in without their being decomposed.

15. Nutrients are absorbed Into the body through:

16. The first part of small intestine is:

17. Deficiency of dietary protein causes an imbalance in the gastro-intestinal system.

18. It is released In the process of photosynthesis.

19. Mixing of food in the intestine with digestive juices is called:

20. Gastric juice composed of: