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Chapter Life Process

The document outlines essential life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. It details autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition, the human digestive system, types of respiration, and the circulatory system in humans and plants. Additionally, it explains the excretory system and provides definitions for key biological terms.

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Chapter Life Process

The document outlines essential life processes including nutrition, respiration, transportation, and excretion. It details autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition, the human digestive system, types of respiration, and the circulatory system in humans and plants. Additionally, it explains the excretory system and provides definitions for key biological terms.

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1. What are Life Processes?

Processes needed to maintain life:

 Nutrition

 Respiration

 Transportation

 Excretion

🌿 2. Nutrition

🔸 (A) Autotrophic Nutrition

👉 Plants make food by Photosynthesis

✅ Equation:

CO₂ + H₂O → Glucose + O₂ (sunlight + chlorophyll)

📊 Diagram:

Sunlight ☀️
↓
[Leaf]
CO₂ H₂O
\ /
Glucose
+
O₂

🔸 (B) Heterotrophic Nutrition

 Depends on others
Types:

 Holozoic (humans)

 Saprophytic

 Parasitic

3. Human Digestive System

🔸 Steps:
Ingestion → Digestion → Absorption → Assimilation → Egestion

📊 Diagram:

Mouth
↓
Oesophagus
↓
Stomach
↓
Small Intestine
↓
Large Intestine
↓
Anus

🔸 Key Points:

 Mouth → chewing + saliva

 Stomach → acid digestion

 Small intestine → digestion + absorption

 Large intestine → water absorption

4. Respiration

🔸 Types:

 Aerobic (with O₂)

 Anaerobic (without O₂)

📊 Diagram:

Oxygen → Lungs → Blood → Cells


↓
Energy + CO₂

🔸 Difference:

 Breathing = physical process

 Respiration = chemical process

❤️5. Transportation in Humans


🔸 Circulatory System:

 Heart

 Blood

 Blood vessels

❤️Heart Diagram:

Lungs
↑ ↓
LA RA
| |
LV RV
↓
Body

👉 Labels:

 RA → Right Atrium

 RV → Right Ventricle

 LA → Left Atrium

 LV → Left Ventricle

🩸 Blood Vessels Diagram

Heart → Arteries → Capillaries → Veins → Heart

🌳 6. Transportation in Plants

📊 Diagram:

Roots → Stem → Leaves


↑ ↑ ↑
Water Xylem Food (Phloem)

👉 Xylem → water
👉 Phloem → food

🚽 7. Excretion
🔸 In Humans:

Removal of waste by kidneys

📊 Excretory System Diagram:

Kidney Kidney
| |
Ureter Ureter
\ /
Urinary Bladder
|
Urethra

🔬 Nephron Diagram (Important!)

Glomerulus
↓
Bowman's Capsule
↓
Tubule
↓
Collecting Duct

👉 Function: filters blood and forms urine

🧠 8. Important Terms

 Tissue → group of cells

 Organ → group of tissues

 Organ system → group of organs

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