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| study of the chemical components of animal bodies and how animals are able to synthesize the material they collect form their environments |
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| required fro protein synthesis in all organisms. |
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| strings of amino acids composed of many amino acid units. |
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| amino acids that an animal is capable of synthesizing |
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| organic molecules composed principally of carbon and hydrogen, that are predominately nonpolar and therefore hydrophobic. |
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| Hydrocarbons built on a backbone consisting of a chain of carbon atoms |
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| omega-3 and omega-6- cannot be synthesized and must be obtained from food. |
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- monosaccharides (glucose and fructose)
- disaccharides (sucrose = glucose + fructose)
- polysaccharides (trehalose = glucose + glucose) |
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| organic compounds that animals must obtain in small quantities from food or another outside source because the compounds cannot be synthesized by the animal and yet are required in small amounts. |
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| required by animals in addition to the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen that predominate tin organic molecules. |
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| consists of ribbon like band of connective tissue studded with chitinous teeth, stretched over a cartilaginous rod (snails). |
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| feeding on objects suspended in water column that are very small by comparison to the feeding animal. (Whales) |
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| mechanism employed by suspension feeding where keratin rich plates hang from upper jaw on the two sides of the head, each plate oriented approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the whale’s body. |
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| mechanical sieving is used to remove suspended food items from the water. |
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synthesize organic molecules from inorganic precursors
- photo-synthetic (algae)
- chemo-synthetic (bacteria in vent communities (fermenting microbes)) |
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| organic compounds from an external source- break down to release energy |
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| process of splitting up ingested food molecules into smaller chemical components that an animal is capable of distributing to the tissues of its body. |
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| digestion in an extracellular body cavity, such as the lumen of the stomach or intestines. |
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| food particles taken into specialized cells prior to digestion, and diction occurs within the cells. |
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| Absorption or assimilation |
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| the entry of molecules into the living tissues of an animal from outside those tissues. |
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| coordinated pattern of contraction in which constriction of the gut at one point on its length initiates constriction at a neighboring point farther along the gut. |
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| constrictions of circular muscles appear and disappear in patterns that push the gut contents back and forth |
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| refers to peristalsis, segmentation, or other muscular activity by the gut. |
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