BSC 2011 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Foregut Fermentation, Hindgut Fermentation, Midgut

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Animals have to eat because they are heterotrophs. They obtain their energy and chemical building blocks from eating other organisms. They derive their nutrition by eating other organisms. Energy consumed in food is either converted to heat or stored. How many essential amino acids are there? (you don"t need to know which ones they are) Essential nutrients are required but cannot be synthesized. Essential nutrient provide the essential chemical building blocks such as amino acids and fatty acids, other organic molecules such as vitamins, and inorganic molecules such as minerals. There are 20 amino acids that animals use to build proteins. All the vitamins are carbon compounds, and they are needed in just tiny amounts. Thus we can quickly define a vitamin as an essential carbon compound required in tiny amounts. (13 commonly recognize vitamins two categories: water- soluble vitamin, and lipid-soluble vitamin. A gastrovascular cavity exists in diploblastic animals taxa.

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