Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Answer the following question.
Why do we get bad breath after eating garlic or raw onion?
Advertisements
Solution
- Raw onion and garlic contain volatile sulphur-containing compounds.
- Sulphur-containing compounds have a distinctive odour which remain in the mouth after consumption of onion and garlic.
- Also, volatile compounds (like certain sulphur containing compounds) in foodstuffs are generally excreted through the lungs and may result in bad breath.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Why is it necessary to excrete waste products?
Give the biological/technical terms for the following:
The hormone increasing reabsorption of water by kidney tubules.
Name the two waste products of the human body which are produced in the body cells.
The procedure of cleaning the blood of a person by using a kidney machine is known as ______.
Given below is a highly simplified diagram of the human kidney cut open longitudinally. Answer the question that follow:
Name the functional units of the kidneys.
Explain the Term: Glomerulus
Give Technical Term:
The tube joining the kidney to the urinary bladder.
Choose the Odd One Out:
Answer the following question.
Amphibian tadpole can afford to be ammonotelic. Justify.
