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23 Cards in this Set
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The smaller substances (molecules) that form a protein.
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Amino acid
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The minimum amount of energy required by the body every day.
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Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
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A unit used to measure energy.
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Calorie
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A group of compounds that includes sugars and starches and serve as a major energy source in the diet of animals.
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Carbohydrate
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An organism that only consumes other consumers
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Carnivore
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The process of burning
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Combustion
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Organism that eat living producers and/or other living consumers for food
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Consumers
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Organsims that eat dead organsims, the organism is broken down into chemicals that act as fertilizer for producers
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Decomposers
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Two monosaccharides bonded together
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Disaccharide
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An animal that does not have a constant internal temperature
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Ectothermic
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A creature that has the ability to use energy to keep its internal temperature constant
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Endothermic
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Those amino acids which the body cannot produce and must be taken in by the diet
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Essential amino acids
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A macronutrient belonging to a group of compounds that are made up of glycerol and fatty acids
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Fat
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The chemical process where glucose is broken into two parts
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Glycolysis
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A consumer that eats producers exclusively
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Herbivore
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Those compounds which the body burns to provide energy for life.
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Macronutrient
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The total energy that our bodies use each day
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Metabolic rate
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Any of a group of substances which are required by the body to function but which are not burned as fuel
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Micronutrient
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The cell organelle in which two major steps of cellular combustion of macronutrients, Krebs Cycle and Electron transport, takes place
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Mitochondrion
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The simplest form of carbohydrate
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Monosaccharide
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A consumer that eats both producers and other consumers
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Omnivore
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Many monosaccharides bonded together. Starch is an example.
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Polysaccharide
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Organisms that produce their own food
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Producers
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