Term | Definition |
Calories | either of two units of heat energy |
Chemosynthesis | the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria |
Energy | ability to work |
Ingestion | the process of drinking and eating |
Absorption | the process or action by which one thing absorbs |
anorexia | a eating disorder the made you not eat |
bulimia | a serious eating disorder market |
Digestion | the process of breaking down food by mechanical |
Peristalsis | the involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles |
Cellulose | insoluble substance that is the main constituent of plant |
Capillary | any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network |
Villi | any of numerous minute elongated projections set closely |
Roughage | fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs |
Egestion | is the discharge or expulsion of undigested material (food) |
Chyme | pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to the small intestine, |
Constipation | condition in which there is difficulty in emptying |
Body mass index | weight-to-height ratio, calculated by dividing ones |
Autotroph | organism that is able to form nutritional organic |
Emulsification | The breakdown of fat globules in the duodenum |
Heterotroph | A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, |