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Ingestion |
Process through which animals take in food |
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Omnivores |
Eats plants and animals |
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Carnivores |
Eats only meat |
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Herbivores |
Eat only plants |
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Suspension feeders |
Take in food particles that are suspended in the water matrix |
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Substrate feeders |
Organism that live in or on their food source and eat it's way though |
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Fluid feeders |
Sucks nutrient rich fluid from a living host |
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Bulk feeders |
Organisms that take in large particles of food at a time |
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Mechanical phase |
Breaking food down into smaller then what was ingestion |
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Biochemical phase |
Breakdown of food by hydrolysis |