Question

arrange the following processes in the nutrition in animals in the correct order: assimilation, egesation,ingestin,absorption,digestion

Answer 1

ingestion digestion absorption egesation

Answer 2

The correct order is “Ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, egestion”.

Explanation:  

• Ingestion is the process in which the food is entered through the “mouth and broken down by the teeth” and saliva in mouth.
• Digestion is the process in which the food broke down and by the use of some enzymes it is converted and used by the cells of the body.
• Absorption is the process in which “foods and minerals absorbed by the cells” and the tissues by the process of diffusion or osmosis.
• Assimilation is the process where the digested food moves in the cells in the body.
• Egestion is the process where the undigested foods discharged from the body.