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What is ingestion |
It is the process through which animals take in food |
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How many ingestors are there |
Three types |
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Describe omnivores |
Eat plants and animals |
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Describe carnivores |
Eat only meat |
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Describe herbivores |
Eat only plants |
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Define Suspension feeders |
TakeI in food particles that are suspended in a water maxtrix Ex. Whales |
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Define Substrate feeders |
Organisms that live in or on their food and eat their way through Ex. Worms |
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Define Fluid feeders |
Suck nutrient rich fluid from a living host |
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Bulk feeders |
Organisms that take in large particles of food at a time Ex. Humans |
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What is digestion |
Is the process by which animals break down food particles that have been ingested |
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How many stages of digestion are there |
Four stages |
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What's the first stage |
Ingestions |
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What's the second stage |
Digestivei |
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Digestion occurs through wat |
Several mechanical and biochemical steps |
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Food that has been ingested is in the form of what |
Organic matter -Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates |
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Protein |
Amino acid(20different ones found in animals) |
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Polly and disaccharides |
Simple sugars |
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Nucleic Acid |
Nucleoacids |
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Biochemical phase |
Breakdown of food by hydrolysis, enzymes begin reactions to break the chemical bonds of the polymers into monomers |
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What is Absorption |
Its the third step of food processing |
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What does absorption allow |
Allows the monomers resulting from digestion to be taken into the blood so that can move to where they aew needed |
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Cells take what |
Take the specific nutrients that they need out of the blood to make energy |
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Excess nutrients are stored in the forms of what |
Fat |
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What's the last stage of food processing |
Elimination |
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What is the gastrovascular cavityresponsible for |
Digestion and formovement of nutrients throughout the body |
