Nutrition And Metabolism

Question 1

This is a substance/molecule within food that her body uses to allow for growth, maintenance, repair over body cells and production of molecules in our body

Answer 1

Nutrition

Question 2

Dreams are divided into what six categories?

Answer 2

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins and minerals, water

Question 3

What organ has the capability of converting one type of molecule into another?

Answer 3

The liver and other organs

Question 4

there are about how many molecules that are body cannot produce fast enough and musket through our diet?

Answer 4

50

Question 5

These are also referred to as sugars

Answer 5

Carbohydrates

Question 6

Majority of carbs that we consume are from what?

Answer 6

Plants

Question 7

What are the three classifications of carbohydrates?

What are there main function?

Answer 7

Monosaccharide
Disaccharide
Polysaccharide

To be used for energy production

Question 8

Simple carbohydrates are composed of what classification of carbs and what type of foods are some examples?

Answer 8

Monosaccharide or disaccharide

Candy, soda, fruit

Question 9

What classification of carbohydrates are complex carbohydrates made of?

Some food examples?

Answer 9

Polysaccharides

Bread, cereal, pasta, rice

Question 10

What is digested and absorbed faster in the body simple or complex carbohydrates?

Answer 10

Simple is digested faster than complex

Question 11

Lipids are fats come from what source?

Answer 11

Meat, eggs, dairy products and from plant sources, corn, chocolate, soy, olive oil, coconut

Question 12

What is the main form of fat in our body

Answer 12

Triglycerides

Question 13

Triglycerides can be divided into what three different types?

Answer 13

Saturated fat
Unsaturated fat
Cholesterol

Question 14

What are the multiple uses for lipids?

Answer 14

Energy storage
Production of hormones
Fat provides protection of the body
Absorption of vitamins
Found on myelin sheath on axons of neurons

Question 15

Proteins are composed of how many different amino acids? And how many of them are essential in our body that cannot be made by our body?

Answer 15

20

9 are essential

Question 16

What type of food has all 20 amino acids?

Answer 16

Animal-based protein such as meat

Question 17

What produces proteins in the body?

Answer 17

Ribrosomes that read the mRNA

Question 18

What do proteins do for the body?

Answer 18

Provide structural support such as elastic fibers and collagen

Allow for chemical reactions to occur

Function of hormones and receptors

Question 19

These are components that are needed to sustain life, provide growth and maintain overall good health

Answer 19

Vitamins

Question 20

What vitamins are water-soluble?

Vitamins need fat to be absorbed?

Answer 20

Water - B vitamins and vitamin C

Fat- vitamin E, D, A, K

Question 21

How many minerals does the body need? What are they?

Answer 21

Seven minerals

Calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chloride, magnesium

Question 22

Minerals can make up about what percent of the body’s weight?

Answer 22

5%

Question 23

Minerals are not used for energy that are used for what other functions in the body?

Calcium -
Iron -

Answer 23

Calcium for bone tissue

Iron is for heme (hemoglobin) function

Question 24

This is referred to all the chemical reactions that occur in the body

Answer 24

Metabolism

Question 25

This is the catabolic reactions in the cells used to make ATP/energy molecules

Answer 25

Cellular respiration

Question 26

The body prefers to use what as its primary energy source for metabolism?

Answer 26

Glucose but can use carbs, lipids and proteins

Question 27

This is the main pathway that the body produces energy

Answer 27

Catabolic breakdown of glucose

Question 28

This is the breakdown of glucose with oxygen

What it the result?

Answer 28

Aerobic respiration

36 energy molecules are the result

Question 29

This is the breakdown of glucose without oxygen what is the net result?

This is not sufficient to sustain life

Answer 29

Anaerobic respiration

2 Energy/ATP molecules