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| nutrition- includes those activities by which an organism obtains processes and uses its food materials our food is used as the raw materials for energy production building materials growth and repair. |
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| autorophs- producer (self feeder ) organisms that can produce their own food inside their cells from simple chemicals - to do this they need a source of energy - this energy source is almost always the sun |
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| photosynthetic autotrophs- organisms that make their own food using energy from the sun. this sunlight enrgy is stored as potential enrgy in food as the bonds holding food molecules together examples all green plants algae some bacteria and protozoans |
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| photosynthesis - the process of converting simple inorganic molecules into food using |
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| photosynthesist occurs best under colors of red and blue light and occurs worst |
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