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ANS 3440 History of Nutrition
History of nutrition
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 3
01/25/2014

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Who was the father of medicine?
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Hippocrates
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What are the 4 Greek elements?
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Fire, Air, Earth, Water
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What are the 4 Greek properties?
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Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry
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Who is the renaissance mathematician, physicist,and naturalist?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Who is the father of modern chemistry and father of nutrition?
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Who proved Lunin's theory correct?
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Hopkins
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Who isolated an amine compound that was used to cure beri-beri? (Vitamin)
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Casimir Funk
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What are plants, animals, and microbes similar components?
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Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, minerals,and vitamins
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What are plants, animals, and microbes similar chemical processes?
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Glycolysis, kerb's cycle, and electron transport
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What are 2 major grouping of organisms?
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Autotrophs and heterotrophs
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What group of organism requires simple inorganic molecules, synthesize complex organic molecules, and used photosynthesis?
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Autotrophs (self feeders) (plants)
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What group of organism requires preformed complex organic molecules, eat complex organic molecules, and uses combustion (oxidation)?
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Heterotrophs (animals, fungi, bacteria)
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Most food nutrients as ingested are of what value?
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NO value
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Most food nutrients must undergo what so they can be absorbed?
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Transformation (digestion)
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What is the physical, chemical, and enzymatic breakdown of foods in the digestive tract prior to absorption?
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Digestion
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What is the movement of substances (nutrients) from the digestive tract into the blood or lymph?
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Absorption
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What is all of the processes which occur to nutrients after digestion and absorption?
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Metabolism
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What is the building up of body tissue and chemical components?
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Anabolism
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What is tearing down of body tissue and chemical components?
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Catabolism
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In all animals what is similar at the cellular level?
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Metabloism
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What are the nutrients that must be supplied in the diet because the cells of the animal cannot synthesize the nutrient at all or not at a rate to meet cellular demands?
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Essential or indispensable nutrients
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What is the nutrients that do not have to be in the diet?
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Non essential or dispensable nutrients
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Both essential and non essential nutrients are required by all animals for maximum what?
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Cell metabolism
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