Nutrition

What this topic covers

Compare autotrophic and heterotrophic modes of nutrition, providing examples from flowering and non-flowering plants. Compare photosynthetic and chemosynthetic modes. Differentiate holozoic (sheep, man), parasitic (roundworm, tapeworm, Loranthus), saprophytic (Rhizopus, mushroom), and carnivorous plant (sundew, bladderwort) feeding. For plant nutrition, determine nutritional value, differentiate light and dark reactions of photosynthesis, determine necessity of light, carbon (IV) oxide, and chlorophyll, detect starch, identify macro/micro-elements, and recognize deficiency symptoms of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. For animal nutrition, indicate sources, determine nutritional value, relate importance and deficiency of food classes (carbohydrates, proteins, fats/oils, vitamins, mineral salts, water), determine balanced diet importance, detect food types via tests, describe mammalian tooth structure/types/functions, compare dental formulae (man, sheep, dog), relate alimentary canal component structures/accessory organs (liver, pancreas, gall bladder) to functions, identify digestive enzyme characteristics, associate enzymes with carbohydrate/protein/fat digestion, and determine end products.