Digestion Flashcards
(7 cards)
Intake of food into the body
Ingestion
Process of mechanical and chemical breakdown
Digestion
Process in which digested food materials are absorbed by the body cells
Absorption
Transport and use of absorbed nutrients
Assimilation
Passing of undigested material out of the digestive tract
Elimination
The intake of food from these sources and the process that convert food substances into living matter
Nutrition
Mode of feeding found in animals and humans
Holozoic nutrition