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Question
Name different steps involved in animal nutrition. Explain.
Solution
The steps involved in animal nutrition are:
- Ingestion - It means taking solid or liquid food inside the body.
- Digestion - It is the breaking down of complex insoluble food components into simple soluble substances.
- Absorption - It is the process by which soluble soluble digested food passes from alimentary canal into blood and lymph through intestinal villi.
- Assimilation - Utilization of absorbed food by different body cells is called assimilation.
- Egestion - Elimination of undigested food as faeces is called egestion.
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