Nutrition Flashcards
Nutrition provides:
- Energy to maintain life functions
- The raw materials to build and maintain structures
Where do living organisms get chemical energy from?
Nutrition
Autotrophic organisms
Makes their own food
using simple materials carbon dioxide and water
Photoautotrophic organisms
Use light as the energy sorce and perform photosynthesis to produce complex organic compounds
holophytic nutrition
What’s the name of organisms that uses light as the energy sorce and perform photosynthesis?
Photoautotrophic organisms
Whats the name of organisms that makes their own food?
Autotropic organisms
Chemoautotrophic organisms
Uses the energy from chemical rections to produce complex organic compounds
prokaryryotes -peform chemosynthesis less efficient than photosynthesis
What’s the name of organisms that uses the energy from chemical rections?
Chemoautotrophic organisms
Hetrotrophic organisms
Cannot make their own food. They consume complex organic conpounds, so they are consumers
What’s the name of organisms that cannot make their own food?
Hetrotrophic organisms
Saprotrophic
They feed on dead/decay matter. Secrete enzymes on tomaterial out side the body for extracellular digestion.
All fungi and some bacteria
Whats the name of organisms that feed on dead matter. Secrete enzymes on to material out side the body for extracellular digestion.
Saprotrophic organisms
Parasitic
Obtain nutrition from another living organism (the host). A parasite’s host always suffers some harm
Endoparasites live in the body
Exoparasites lives outside the body
What’s the name of an organism that obtain nutrition from the host. A parasite’s host always suffers some harm
Parasitic
Holozoic
Ingests, digests and egest the indigestible remains. Food is processed inside the body, in a specialised digestive system.
-most animals
- specialised digestive system
Whats the name of organisms that ingests, digests and egest the indigestible remains.
Holozoic
Mutualistic
Interaction between individials of a different species. **Both organisms benefit **
Whats the name of the organism when both organisms benifis from interaction between individials of a different species.
Mutualstic
Name a holozoic unicellular organism
Amoeba
Explain the digestion of amoeba
Large SA:VR
-obtain nutrition by diffusion, facilitated diffusion or active transport across the cell membrane
-Take in molecules by endocytosis into food vaculoes, which fuse with lysosmes - digested by lysosomal enzymes
-Products of digestion absorbed into cytoplasm
-Waste egested by exocytosis
Name the parts of hydra
- Mouth
- tentacle with sting opening
- endoderm
- jelly layer
- ectoderm
- hollow body cavity
Hydra
-Diploblastic (2 layers) endoderm and ectoderm
-sting and paralise pray - easy to eat other animals
-Endodermal cells secrete - protease and lipase
-Pray is digested extracellular
-Products of digestion abosrbed into cells that line the endoderm
-egest waste through the mouth
How many openings to the tube gut?
2
Where does the digestion and absorption occur in the human digestive system?
in the gut - a long holow muscular tuble
What happens at the human mouth?
Ingestion
What happens in the human gut?
Digestion and absorption
Mechanical digestion
cutting and crushing by the teeth
Chemical digestion
Secretion of digestive enzymes
Name 2 protein digestion enzymes
- Protease
- Peptidase
What part of a polypeptide does exopeptidase hydrolise?
hydrolises end of peptide bonds