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What is external digestion?
External digestion is when enzymes are secreted to digest food outside of the organism. Then the soluble nutrients are absorbed by the organism.
What is the PRIMARY function of enzymes in an organism?
enzymes break down food into smaller particles (nutrients) (waste) so that the body can utilize the nutrients and waste the particles the body does not need
How are the words nutrient and nutrition related?
Nutrients are substances that are required for the nourishment of organism while nutrition is the entire process by which organisms obtain energy and nutrients from food.
How do amoebas obtain nutrients?
It contains nutrients by the food particle. It stores nutrients and then it move onward to the digestive system. It contains nutrients by the food particle. It stores nutrients and then it move onward to the digestive system. ADDED: A single-celled organism, such as an amoeba, cannot be said to have a digestive "system", but still digests its food by breaking it down chemically.
What organisms would you consider the most important keystone organisms in the food web?
Bacteria is the most important organism because bacteria gets the nutrients from dead plants and animals, and then it provides the nutrients for the grass to be able to grow.
What helps an organism live?
to help an organism live you need nutrients, like any types of food, depending on the organism.
What helps an organism to live?
to help an organism live you need nutrients, like any types of food, depending on the organism.
What is a organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes for food?
A decomposer is an organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes for food. Fungi and bacteria are the most common decomposers.
How does energy flow through food chains in the rock pool?
Energy and nutrients are passed from organism to organism, through the food chain as one organism, eats another.
What organism must obtain nutrients and what?
All living organism requires nutrients of some sort. Animals require food, plants require water and sunlight, etc.
What organisms in the food chain is responsible for recycling nutrients?
The organism that produces food in the food chain for other organisms is the producer. The producer is usually a green plant that is eaten by an omnivore or a herbivore. And the food chain continues
What do organism use nutrients from food for?
To make cells and build body parts
What is external digestion?
External digestion is when enzymes are secreted to digest food outside of the organism. Then the soluble nutrients are absorbed by the organism.
What happens to waste food in the large intestine?
What hasn't been processed by your stomach and metabolized by liver gets further drained until no nutrients can be further had.
What is the Importance of food for living organism?
Food provides nutrients and energy we need.
Are drinks a food?
Alcohol is not metabolized into a form that can be used by the body for energy or other purposes, and is therefore not a food. Because, as a poison, it gets priority for clearance from the body, it can actually interfere with the absorption of nutrients.
How does flungi get there food?
Fungi are decomposers. They absorb food by breaking down another organism and using its nutrients. Fungi are heterotrophs.
