digestive system - unit 5

Question 1

what is defined as animal nutrition ?

Answer 1

it is the process by which food is taken in to make use in different bodily functions.

Question 2

what is defined as hetetrophic nutrition and what organisms have the above type of nutrition ?

Answer 2

heterotrophic nutrition is the process by which an organism obtain organic molecules by ingestion of another organism or a substence derived from another organism .

animals , fungi , bacteria

Question 3

what are the 2 types of heterotrophic nutrition ?

Answer 3

holozoic and symbiosis

Question 4

what is the definition of holozoic nutrition ?

Answer 4

it is the process by which food is ingested into the alimentary canal