Chapter 41 Nutrition Flashcards
In animals diet provides
- Chemical energy
- organic building bocks (organic carbon and nitrogen)
- essential nutrients (must have, cannot make themselves)
What are the four classes of essential nutrients?
- essential amino acids
- essential fatty acid
- vitamins
- minerals
Can the body make essential nutrients?
No
Animals require how many amino acids?
20
Can synthesize About half from molecules in their diet
___________ amino acids must be obtained from food in preassembled form
“__________” proteins provide all amino acids
Ex: eggs, meat, cheese
Essential
Complete
Vitamins are __________molecules required in the diet in Small amounts
How many vitamins are essential for humans?
Organic
13,
two categories: fat-soluble and water-soluble
Minerals are simple __________ nutrients, usually required in small amounts
Inorganic
Deficiency of vitamin D that may lead to a condition of weakening and softening of the bones brought on by extreme calcium loss
Rickets
Malnourishment produced by severe protein deficiency
kwashiorkor disease
Long-term absence from the diet of one or more essential nutrients
Malnourishment
Results when a diet does not provide enough chemical energy
Undernutrition
Neural tube defect‘s were found to be the result in a deficiency in ___________ In pregnant mothers
Folic acid, vitamin B9
What are the main stages of food processing?
- ingestion is the act of eating
- digestion
- absorption
- elimination
What are the four main feeding mechanisms of animals?
- suspension feeders (many are aquatic line whales)
- substrate feeders (Live in or on their food source)
- fluid feeders
- bulk feeders (humans)
The process of breaking food down into molecules small enough to absorb
Digestion
- mechanical digestion
- Chemical digestion (enzymatic hydrolysis)*
The uptake of nutrients by body cells
Absorption
- type of digestion were food particles are engulfed by phagocytosis
- food vacuoles, containing food, fuse with lysosomes containing hydrolytic enzymes*
Intracellular digestion
The breakdown of food particles outside of cells
Occurs in compartments that are continuous with the outside of the animals body
Extracellular digestion
Animals with simple body plans have a __________ that functions in both digestion and distribution of nutrients
Gastrovascular cavity
A complete digestive track with two openings. Mouth and anus.
It can have specialized regions that carry out digestion and absorption in a stepwise fashion
Alimentary canal
- pushes food along
- rhythmic contraction of muscles in the wall of the canal
Peristalsis
Please regulate the movement of material between compartments
Sphincters (valves)
Initiates digestion of carbohydrates/polymers of glucose
Occurs in the oral cavity, found in saliva
Salivary amylase
Two components of saliva?
- salivary amylase
- Mucus (A viscous mixture of water, salt, cells, and glycoproteins)
The combination of saliva and food is called…
Bolus
Junction that opens to both the esophagus and the trachea
Pharynx (throat)
Swallowing is a reflex action where the soft palate closes of the ___________.
Trachea moves up causing the ____________ to cover the glottis.
Nasopharynx
Epiglottis
What covers the opening to the windpipe when swallowing?
Epiglottis
When does coughing occur?
When The epiglottis fails to close off the windpipe