Plants and Animals Nutrients Procurement and Processing

Question 1

What compounds in foods essential to life and health, providing us with energy?

Answer 1

Nutrients

Question 2

Refers to the supply and absorption of chemical compounds for the growth and metabolic processes of plants?

Answer 2

Plant nutrition

Question 3

These chemical compounds for growth are known as plant nutrients or essential elements

Answer 3

Plant nutrition

Question 4

Refers to the continuous arrangement of protoplasts of a plant which are interconnected by plasmodesmata.

Answer 4

Symplast route

Question 5

Refers to the non-protoplasmic components of a plant, including the cell wall and the intracellular spaces.

Answer 5

Apoplast route

Question 6

A symbiotic interaction between a young root and a fungus.

Answer 6

Mycorrhizae

Question 7

Diatomic nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere and soil, but plants are unable to use it because they do not have the necessary enzyme to convert it into a form that they can use to make proteins, what do you call that enzyme?

Answer 7

Nitrogenase

Question 8

Provide energy in the form of calories that the body needs to be able to work, and to support other functions.

Answer 8

Carbohydrates

Question 9

Play an important role in making essential hormones and enzymes, in tissue repair, preserving lean muscle mass, and supplying energy in times when carbohydrates are not available

Answer 9

Proteins