Chapter 41- Animal Nutrition/Digestion Flashcards
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Vocab:
Nutrition
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Food being taken in, taken apart, and taken up.
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Four distinct stages of food processing:
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1-ingestion
2-digestion
3-absorption
4-elimination
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Vocab:
Ingestion
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- first stage of food processing
- it is the act of eating
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Vocab:
Digestion
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- second stage of food processing
- food is broken down into molecules small enough for the body to absorb.
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Vocab:
Absorption
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- third stage of food processing
- the animals cells take up (absorb) small molecules such as amino acids and simple sugars
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Vocab:
Elimination
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- fourth and last stage of food processing
- passes material out of the digestive system
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Vocab:
Extracellular digestion
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The breakdown of food in compartments that are continuous with the outside of the animals body.
