HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
ENTOMOLOGY
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Question
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Food we eat.
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A digestive organ used to digest food.
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A digestive organ used for storage of food.
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Respiratory organs of insects.
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Detailed explanation-1: -birds. …the stomach forms a thin-walled crop, which is the bird’s principal organ for the temporary storage of food.
Detailed explanation-2: -Crop: A pouch in the esophagus used to store food temporarily before moving it on to the stomach.
Detailed explanation-3: -Crop are distensible sacs which help in storage of food. Gizzard is made up of chitinous teeth and circular muscles and it helps in grinding the food. Birds have crops for storing food and gizzard as they lack teeth.
Detailed explanation-4: -The stomach of birds has two chambers: the proventriculus, where gastric juices are produced to digest the food before it enters the stomach, and the gizzard, where the food is stored, soaked, and mechanically ground.
Detailed explanation-5: -When the earthworm swallows small particles of soil and bits of dead plants and animals, muscles push the food to a chamber or sac called a crop. The crop stores food for a short time.