Chapter 6 Flashcards
Nutrition
The study of chemicals that comprise the body and how animals synthesize components of their bodies from the chemicals they collect from the environment
Components and nutrients in body from biggest to smallest
proteins
lipids
minerals
nucleic acids
carbohydrates
Proteins comprise what percent of organic matter?
half
How many amino acids and what are they required for?
20
required for protein synthesis in all organisms
What vital roles do proteins play? (3)
- Enzymes to regulate reactions. speed up biochemical reactions by increasing the frequency of collisions, lowering the activation energy and properly orienting the colliding molecules.
- Required for locomotion
- Play several types of structural roles (actin and myosin)
What is an limiting element?
NItrogen. Organisms can’t use the gaseous (molecular) form N2
What are essential amino acids?
Amino acids that can’t be synthesized by animals
How are amino acids bonded togther?
peptide bonds (covalent)
How many amino acids make up a dipeptide, tripeptide,
polypeptide? How many are needed to be called a protein?
2 AA
3 AA
10 AA or more
50 or more AA
Amino acids are characterized by….? What provides their
uniqueness?
The presence of at least one amino and carboxyl group.
side groups (R)
What are the four protein structures?
Primary – linear sequence of AA composing the polypeptide chain
Secondary – twist or bend upon themselves to form a more complex structure: alpha helix or beta pleated sheets
Tertiary – 3d shape of polypeptide chain; unique for each protein
Quaternary – describes the joining of 2 or more polypeptide chains to form dimers, trimers, etc.
Animals do not_______amino acids or proteins
Nitrogen containing amino groups (-NH2) are immediately removed from excess amino acids
Store
Why are lipids needed?
Lipids are needed for all membranes and are the storage compounds of animals
Lipids are insoluble in water. Meaning they are?
hydrophobic
Common lipids (3)
Triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols
Triglycerides can be solid (fat) or liquid (oil)
Composed of glycerol and 3 fatty acids (may be different)
***Are a form of energy storage
Saturated fats
have a single covalent bond; each carbon bonds to the maximum number of hydrogen atoms; thus each fatty acid is SATURATED with H
e.g., cocoa butter, palm oil and coconut oil.
Monounsaturated fats
have 1 double covalent bond between 2 C atoms and thus are not completely saturated with H,
e.g., olive oil, peanut oil
Polyunsaturated Fats
have more than 1 double covalent bond between fatty acid carbons;
e.g., corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil.
Phospholipids
Modified triglycerides
The phosphate head is polar and attracts other polar or charged particles (Hydrophillic)
The hydrocarbon tail is nonpolar and only interacts with nonpolar molecule(Hydrophobic)
Amphipathic
molecules that have both polar and nonpolar regions
ex. phospholipids
Sterols
Easily made from saturated fat.
Flat molecules made of four interlocking hydrocarbon rings
e.g., cholesterol, steroid hormones, is the raw material for vit. D.
What are carbohydrates and their functions?
Are hydrated carbon chains
- Provide structural support and shape
- Chitin, cellulose, and hemicellulose
- Storage compounds
- Starch, glycogen
- Transport compounds
Examples of a monosaccharides (carbohydrates) (3)
glucose
ribose
2-deoxyribose
What is the main form of carbohydrate storage?
Glycogen
Examples of a disaccharides (carbohydrates) (2)
sucrose
lactose
Examples of a polysaccharides (carbohydrates) (2)
glycogen
chitin
What are vitamins?
- Organic compounds that must be obtained from an outside source
- Act as cofactors for enzymes
- Required in small amounts
Minerals are…?
Chemical elements required by animals
- Iodine
- Metals found in many enzymes
- Phosphorus
________of the use of a feeding apparatus is as important as the apparatus itself
Behavioral modification
- Wolf spiders
What are the 4 types of feeding methodologies?
- Individual items- sees many types of food sources, but picks which one it wants to eat
- Suspension feeding– there is a medium (water) with food in it and the animal separates the two
- Fluid feeding- animals eating some kind of liquid (blood)
- Symbioses-(I added)
What are the 3 types of diets ?
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Feeding methods are diverse
- Three examples
- Orcas ?
- Blue whales ?
- Reef-building corals ?
- Determined by motility
- sessile?
- predators; individual feeders
- suspension feeders
- symbioses and photosynthesis
- non-mobile
What are the steps for an individual items feeder?
Food must be:
- Located
- Identified
- Subdued
- Ingested
Related animals exhibit ______ that allows them to eat different things. (birds and beaks)
Snails (invertebrates) have a scraping organ called?
- Specializations
- The radular apparatus.
- Cartilaginous rod surrounded by connective tissue embedded with chitinous teeth
- Teeth are highly specialized
- chainsaw looking
What is suspension feeding? What is a benefit?
- Feeding on much smaller items suspended in water
- It allows animals to feed lower on the food chain and obtain more energy in the same amount of time
ex. whale
- Use baleen plates to collect food
- Made of keratin
- Hang from upper jaw
- 100’s of meter-long plates
- Water enters mouth and is forced through keratin fibers
- Small food items are trapped
- Called filter feeding
What do fish use for suspension feeding?
Gill rakers- trap and move the food into the mouth but not true a filter feeder.
What are the two methods of fluid feeding?
- Piercing and sucking:
- Mosquito, platyhelminths, nematodes, annelids (leeches), and arthropods
- Suck blood from animals or sap from plants
- Cutting and licking:
* Vampire bats, hagfish, lampreys
What are the 3 categories of microbes that occur with symbioses?
- Photosynthetic autotrophs
- Autotrophs can make organic molecules from inorganic precursors
- AKA: photoautotrophs
- Chemosynthetic autotrophs
- Make organic molecules from inorganic molecules using energy-releasing inorganic chemical reactions
- AKA: chemoautotrophs
- Heterotrophs
* Must ingest organic molecules and break them down to get energy
Feeding methods of symbioses using photoautotrphs:
- Animals obtain organic molecules from internal populations of algae (photoautotrophs)
- Most algae are dinoflagellates
- All of these types of animals have additional feeding methods
- Reef-building corals
- Algae supply food energy and help make the calcareous skeleton
- Stress can cause symbionts to leave
Feeding methods of symbioses using chemoautotrphs:
First discovered in….?
What are the key to this realationship?
What area is home to the key?
- Hydrothermal-vent communities (Riftia pachyptila)
- Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria
- Trophosome
Feeding methods of symbioses using heterotrophs:
Organic compounds required from?
What provides metabolic capabilities that animals lack?
Often found where?
They are ____ and sometimes called _____microbes.
What microbes can be utilized?
- external sources
- Microbes
- specialized regions of the gut, even humans
- anaerobic and fermenting
- Bacteria, Protists, Yeasts, Fungi
ex. foregut fermenters: ruminants (cows)