Chapter 41: Slides 1-46 Flashcards
What 3 needs must be satisfied for an adequate diet?
Chemical energy for cellular processes
Organic building blocks for macromolecules
Essential nutrients
Required materials that an animal requires, but cannot assemble from simple organic molecules are called
Essential nutrients
These must be obtained from an animal’s diet
Essential nutrients
What are the 4 classes of essential nutrients?
Essential amino acids
Essential fatty acids
Vitamins
Minerals
All organisms require _____ amino acids
20
Must be obtained from food in prefabricated form
Essential amino acids
What are examples that provide all essential amino acids and are thus “complete” proteins
Meat
Egg
Cheese
Most plant proteins are ____________ in amino acid composition
Incomplete
__________ can synthesize many of the fatty acids they need
Animals
Must be obtained from the diet and include certain unsaturated fatty acids
Essential fatty acids
Where can animals obtain essential fatty acids?
Seeds
Grains
Vegetables
Organic molecules required in the diet in very small amounts
Vitamins
How many vitamins are essential for humans
13
What are the 2 categories of vitamins?
Fat-soluble
Water-soluble
Simple inorganic nutrients, usually required in small amounts
Minerals
What can upset homeostatic balance?
Ingesting large amounts of some minerals
Have diverse diets
Animals
Dine mainly on plants/algae
Herbivores
Mostly eat other animals
Carnivores
Regularly consume animals as well as plants/algae
Omnivores
Most animals are ____________ feeders
Opportunistic
Failure to obtain adequate nutrition
Malnutrition
Can have negative impacts on health and survival
Malnutrition
Can cause deformities, disease, and death
Deficiencies in essential nutrients
What results when a diet does not provide enough chemical energy
Undernourishment
What is used up in an undernourished individual
Stored fat and carbohydrates
What is broken down in an undernourished individual
Proteins
What is lost in an undernourished individual
Muscle mass
What is deficient in the brain in undernourished individuals
Protein
The act of eating or feeding
Ingestion
What are the 4 main feeding mechanisms in animals
Filter
Substrate
Fluid
Bulk
Many aquatic animals are what kind of feeder
Filter
Sift small food particles from the surrounding medium
Filter feeder
Whale
Filter feeder