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The physical arrangement, shape, or composition of a material object or organism.
What is structure?
Energy-rich molecules that can be either saturated or unsaturated.
What are fats?
An activity or purpose natural to or intended for a person or thing (its job).
What is function?
How and what an organism eats.
What is diet?
They're named things like A, B, C, D, E, and K.
What are vitamins?
It transports food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Substances made of sugar units.
What are carbohydrates?
When food molecules go through the openings in walls in the small intestine and into the rest of the body.
What is absorption?
What is a Calorie?
This kind of micronutrient is essential for metabolic processes.
What are vitamins?
It begins the digestion process by breaking down proteins using stomach acid.
What is the stomach?
Substances important for growing and repairing muscles in your body.
What are proteins?
All chemical reactions that occur in an organism.
What is metabolism?
Having too much body fat.
What is obesity?
This adjective describes nutrients that are produced naturally by plants or animals.
What is "organic?"
The primary site in the body for digestion of food molecules like proteins, fats, and carbs.
What is the small intestine?
The primary source of energy for the body.
What are carbohydrates?
It's the kind of reaction that breaks things down.
What is a catabolic reaction?
Having too much food, not enough food, or not enough of a specific nutrient.
What is malnutrition (or nutrition imbalance)?
Calcium, potassium, sodium, and magnesium are common examples.
What are minerals?
It absorbs water and final remaining nutrients from food molecules in the final stage of digestion and solidifies waste to be removed from the body.
What is the large intestine?
Substances made of amino acids.
What are proteins?
It's the kind of reaction that builds things up.
What is an anabolic reaction?
Chemical messengers that cause changes in body cells, speeding up and slowing down different reactions in cells.
What are hormones?
This adjective describes nutrients that plants and animals get directly or indirectly from soil rather than producing them themselves.
What is "inorganic?"