Digestion Flashcards
1
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Intake of food into the body
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Ingestion
2
Q
Process of mechanical and chemical breakdown
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Digestion
3
Q
Process in which digested food materials are absorbed by the body cells
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Absorption
4
Q
Transport and use of absorbed nutrients
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Assimilation
5
Q
Passing of undigested material out of the digestive tract
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Elimination
6
Q
The intake of food from these sources and the process that convert food substances into living matter
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Nutrition
7
Q
Mode of feeding found in animals and humans
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Holozoic nutrition
