Module 10 – Nutrition and Food Processing Flashcards

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______ is the process of acquisition and use of food

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Nutrition

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_________ is a molecule in food that can be used by an organism that “eats” the door to continue their physiological processes

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Nutrient

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______ are substances that are used as energy sources to power the systems of the body, ingredients to make compounds for metabolic processes, building blocks in the growth and repair of tissues

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Nutrients

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All animals are _______ – organisms that must obtain their energy and nourishment from organic molecules

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Heterotrophs

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Plants are ________ – organisms that produce their own nourishment using energy from sunlight

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Autotrophs

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______ are the most important source of energy

Ingested as polysaccharides

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Carbohydrates

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_______ are fats and fat-like substances

Triglyceride

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Lipids

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_______ are composed of amino acids and service as enzymes and essential structural components of cells

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Proteins

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_______ small amounts for biochemical processes

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Organic compounds

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_______ results for dietary intake that is either below of above required needs

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Malnutrition

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In human populations, both _______ and obesity are serious health problems

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Undermutrition

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Selection, acquisition, and ingestion of food

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Feeding

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Process of breaking down food mechanically and chemically

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Digestion

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The passage of nutrients through the lining of the digestive tract into blood

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Absorption

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Process of discharging undefeated and absorbed food

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Egestion

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_______ occurs within cells, typically inside and organelle like a food vacuole

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Intracellular digestion

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________ occurs in a centralized tubule or cavity but not inside individual cells

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Extracellular digestion

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________ have one orifice (body opening) that is used for ingestion and for egestion, mouth and anus purposes

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Incomplete digestive systems

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________ have on orifice for ingestion and a separate orifice for elimination

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Complete digestive systems

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_______ feed by endophytes is and egestion is by exocytosis

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Amoeba

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Food particles are drawn into the mouth from a food vacuole. Nutritious contents of the vacuole exit with diffusion and then vacuole comes into contact with the anal pore

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Paramecium

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Some invertebrates have a _______ with a single opening which serves as both mouth and anus

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Gastrovascular cavity

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Most invertebrates and all vertebrates have a _______ or tube-within-tube body plan

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Complete digestive tract

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Waves of muscle contraction push food in one direction from mouth to anus

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Peristalsis

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Accessory glands secrete digestive juices into the digestive tract ______(3)
Liver Pancreas Salivary glands
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________ begins in the mouth and teeth of meals are specialized to preform specific functions
Mechanical digestion
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_________ secrete saliva into the mouth, the enzyme _______ begins the chemical digestion of starch into sugar
Salivary glands | Salivary amylase
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A _______ at the lower end of the esophagus releases to allow food to enter the stomach
Sphincter
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Folders of the stomach wall (______) allow the stomach to expand to hold up a liter of food
Rugae
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Cells in gastric glands secrete ________ acid and ________, an inactive precursor which is converter by acidic gastric juice to _______, a digestive enzyme that hydrolyzes proteins to short peptides
HCL Pepsinogen Pepsin
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Starch is degraded to small polysaccharides and maltose unit salivary _______ is activated by stomach acids
Amylase
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Inner surface, digestive surface
Mucosa
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______ blood vessels transport nutrients
Submucosa
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Moves food though peristalsis
Muscularis
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Outer layer
Serosa
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Millions of tiny ________ increase the surface area of the small intestine for digestion and absorption of nutrients
Villi
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_______ absorb broken down lipids which capillaries absorb a variety of other nutrients
Lacteals
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_______ – indigestible solid material and bile salts, also occurs in the colon
Storage of feces
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____ secretes bile which digests fats by a detergent like action (emulsification)
Liver
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Secretes both digestion enzymes and hormones that regulate blood glucose levels
Pancreas
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_______ digests polypeptides to dip epithets
Trypsin
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_______ degrades lipids
Pancreatic lipase
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_______ breakers down complex carbohydrates to disaccharides
Pancreatic amylase
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_______ secreted by salivary glands
Amylase
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Secreted by the lining in the small intestine
Maltase
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Digests proteins into peptides _______ in stomach _______ in the duodenum
Pepsin | Trypsin
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digestion so small peptides into amino acids in the small intestine
Peptidases
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Lipids are initial emulsified by _______ of the liver
Bile salts
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They are hydrolyzes by ______ into glycerol and fatty acids
Pancreatic lipase
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Swelling of the appendix
Appendicitis
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Results when lining breaks down
Ulcers
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Know as cholecystectomy
Gallbladder disease
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_________ are compounds that separate into ions when dissolved
Electrolytes
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_______ is a ability to counteract osmotic stress and maintain homeostasis with respect to water and electrolyte balance
Osmoregulatoin
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Body fluids of most marine invertebrates are in osmotic equilibrium with surrounding sea water
Osmoconformers
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__________ are animals that have homeostatic mechanisms that maintain salt concentration in their surrounding tissues regardless of their surroundings
Osmoregulators
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Holds the most body fluid
Intracellular fluid
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_______ includes interstitial fluid, lymph, and blood plasma
Extracellular fluid
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______ forms for plasma and other materials throughout the body
Interstitial fluid
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In vertebrates, blood _______ transport nutrients, gases, waste products, and other materials through the body
Plasma
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_______ describes the amount of solute in the solvent
Tonicity/osmolarity
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______ is the diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane from a more dilute solution to a less dilute solution
Osmosis
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______ is the process which organisms control the concentration of water and salt so that their body fluids do not become too dilute or too concentrated
Osmoregulatoin
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_______ system functions in both osmoregulation and in disposal of metabolic wastes
Excretory
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_______ is the process of ridding the body of metabolic wastes
Excretion
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The principle metabolic waste products are carbon dioxide, water, and ______
Nitrogenous wastes
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The mechanism of amino acids, the nitrogen contraining amino group is removed (deaminiation) and converted to ________
Ammonia
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Highly toxic | Deammination of amino acids
Ammonia
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Less toxic | Produced from ammonia and breakdown of nucleotides
Uric acid
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Less toxic | Produced in the liver from ammonia by the urea cycle
Urea
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Flatworms have _______ comprised of tubules with no internal openings
Protonephridia
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Enlarged blind ends consists of _______
Flame cells
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Most Annelida and Mollusks have ______ – tubes that open at both ends
Metanephridia
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The ciliates inner end opens into the coelom – the outer opens to the outside though a ________
Nephridiopore
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Major organ of excretion and is responsible of osmoregulation in vertebrates
Kidney
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Is the functional unite of the kidney
nephron
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Steps in urine production (4)
Filtration Reabsorption Secretion Concentration