Dietary Requirements
4 Stages of Food Processing
Hydrolysis
Homeostatic Mechanisms
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Vitamins are categorized into what two groups?
Water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins.
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What is the first stage of food processing?
Ingestion
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What does extracellular digestion allow for?
It allows animals to devour larger prey.
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What do gorillas, cattle, and hares have in common?
They are all herbivores!
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What is the difference between malnourishment and undernourishment?
Malnourishment means missing one or more essential acids, while undernourishment is deficient calorie intake.
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What precedes chemical digestion?
Mechanical fragmentation (chewing).
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What organelle helps hydrolytic enzymes break down food without destroying the cell’s own cytoplasm? What type of digestion is this?
Vacuoles and intracellular digestion.
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What do sharks, hawks, spiders, and snakes have in common?
They are all carnivores!
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Polysaccharides and disaccharides are to simple sugars, as fats are to what?
Glycerol and fatty acids.
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What are macromolecules made of and how are they made?
By linking together monomers by removing a water molecule and forming a covalent bond.
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What are the four feeding mechanisms?
Suspension feeders, substrate feeders, fluid feeders, and bulk feeders.
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