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What are canines used for?

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Tearing

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Cutting

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Grinding

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Chewing

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Solution

The correct option is A Tearing
Canines are pointed teeth found at the side of the mouth. These are useful for tearing food apart. The incisors are useful for biting into food. The molars and the premolar are used for chewing or grinding food.

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1. Incisors are chisel-shaped and are used for cutting.

2. Canine is dagger shaped and used for tearing.

3. Molars and Premolars are used for crushing and grinding.

Which of the above sentences is correct?

Which one of the following pairs of types of teeth perform one common function as stated against it ?

(a) Incisors, canines - Holding

(b) Canines, premolars - Tearing

(c) Premolars, molars - Grinding

(d) Molars, incisors - Tearing

Q. ________ and ________ are used for chewing and grinding food.

Q. Study the following passage:
Most of the vertebrates have jaws with teeth. The mode of arrangement of teeth on the jaws is called dentition.
The various types of teeth seen in mammals are incisors (I) canines (C) premolars (P) and molars (M). They are used for biting, tearing, chewing and grinding, respectively.
Canines, the tearing teeth are well-developed in carnivores and ill-developed or absent in herbivores.

Now answer the following:
(i) In frogs, all the teeth in the upper jaw look-alike, whereas in human beings they are different. The type of dentition in human beings can be called .........
(a) Homodont (b) Isodont (c) Heterodont (d) Acrodont
(ii) The dental formula of a mammal is written as ICPM=2023/1023. The teeth missing in it are ................
(a) Incisors (b) Canines (c) Premolars (d) Molars

Q. The teeth which help us in chewing and grinding the food we eat are?

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