Chapters 33+34 quiz Flashcards
What are essential nutrients?
Nutrients required by cells that must be obtained from dietary sources
What does an animal’s diet provide?
- Chemical energy to convert to ATP
- Organic building blocks
- Essential nutrients
What are the 4 classes of essential nutrients?
- Amino Acids
- Essential fatty acids
- Vitamins
- Minerals
What are vitamins and how are they categorized?
Vitamins are organic molecules required in our diet in small amounts. There are fat and water soluble vitamins
What are minerals?
Simple inorganic nutrients usually required in small amounts
What is malnutrition?
The result of long-term absence from the diet of one or more essential nutrients
How are mineral deficiencies prevented?
Animals can consume salt, minerals, shells or stones
What is undernutrition?
The result of a diet that does not prevent enough chemical energy. An undernourished organism will burn it’s fat and eventually the rest of its body
What are the 4 stages of food processing?
ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination
What is ingestion?
Eating or feeding
What is digestion?
The process of breaking food down into molecules small enough to absorb
What are the two types of digestion?
Chemical: Splits food into small molecules that can pass through membranes
Mechanical: Increases the surface area of food, includes chewing. Typically comes before chemical digestion
What is absorption?
The uptake of nutrients by body cells
What is elimination?
The passage of undigested material out of the digestive system
How do most animal conduct digestion and why?
In compartments to reduce the risk of digesting its own cells and tissues
What are the two types of digestion?
Intracellular: Food particles are engulfed by phagocytosis
Extracellular: Digestion of foods outside the cell
What is a gastrovascular cavity?
A cavity in animals with simple body plans that function in digestion and distribution of nutrients
What is an alimentary canal?
A part of the digestive tract of complex animals with a mouth and an anus with specialized regions that carry out digestion in a stepwise fashion
What is bioenergetics?
The flow and transformation of energy in an animal that determines its nutritional needs
What is metabolic rate?
An animal’s energy use per unit of time
How is metabolic rate determined?
Monitoring animal’s rate of heat loss, amount of O2 consumed or amount of CO2 produced
What is minimum, basal, and standard metabolic rate?
Minimum: The minimum metabolic rate for basic cell functions
Basal: Minimum metabolic rate of a nongrowing endotherm that is at rest, has an empty stomach, and is not experiencing stress
Standard: (BMR) The minimum metabolic rate of a fasting, nonstressed ectotherm at a particular temperature
What is the function of insulin and glucagon? Where are they produced?
To maintain glucose levels, they are produced in the pancreas
What makes insulin levels rise?
A carbohyrate-rich meal
How is glycogen synthesized?
Through glucose entering the liver
What happens with glucose concentrations are low?
Glucagon stimulates the liver to break down glycogen and release glucose into the blood
What is diabetes mellitus?
A diseased caused by deficiency of insulin or a decreased response to insulin in target tissues. Cells are unable to take up glucose to meet their metabolic needs and fat becomes the main substrate for cellular respiration
What are types 1 and 2 diabetes?
1: An autoimmune disorder where the immune system destroys the pancreatic beta cells
2: Diabetes characterized by a failure of target cells to respond normally to insulin
What causes diabetes?
Type 2 is hereditary, excess body weight and lack of exercise increase risk
Which mechanisms regulate appetite?
Ghrelin: Hormone secreted by stomach wall, triggers a feeling of hunger before meals
Insuline/PYY: Hormone secreted by the small intestine after eating, they suppress appetite
Leptin: A hormone produced by fat tissue, suppresses appetite and regulates body fat levels
How do enzymes in chemical digestion break things down?
Enzymatic hydrolysis