define nutrition in animals
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Nutrition is the process of obtaining food and then using it for obtaining energy, growth and repair of the body. Animals are divided in to three groups on the basis of their food habits Herbivores, Carnivores and Omnivores.
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- Nutrition is the process of obtaining food and then using it for obtaining energy, growth and repair of the body.
- There are five main processes concerned with the use of food by animals.
- As we know that Plants produces their own food by the help of photosynthesis.
- But animals are heterotrophs and hence they depend on other organisms for their food.
- This readymade food comes either from plants or from other animals.
- We are also animals and obtain food from plants in the form of rice, pulses, vegetables etc. and foods like milk; eggs, chicken, fish etc are obtained from other animals.
- Many other animals obtain their of food by eating the flesh of other animals like fish, birds, snake etc.
- The big fish eat small fish, the snake eats frog and the insects eat dead bodies of animals.
- The non- green plants also obtain their food from other plants or animals e.g yeast plant.
- Also, plant eats insects like pitcher plant and Venus fly- trap.
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