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What are the two primary requirements of life provided by nutrients?
What are the two primary requirements of life provided by nutrients?
energy and raw materials (matter)
What is nutrition, and what are the processes involved in it?
What is nutrition, and what are the processes involved in it?
Nutrition is the sum total of all processes through which the food is taken in, digested, absorbed, and utilized, and finally, the undigested matter is eliminated outside the body. The processes involved are ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion (defecation).
What is the purpose of digestion in the nutrition process?
What is the purpose of digestion in the nutrition process?
To convert complex, non-diffusible, and non-absorbable food substances into simple, diffusible, and absorbable substances by enzymes.
What is ingestion, and what happens during this process?
What is ingestion, and what happens during this process?
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What is the final process in the nutrition cycle?
What is the final process in the nutrition cycle?
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