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Chapter One

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Nutrition in animals

Introduction
Animals get their food from plants or other animals. They exhibit a heterotrophic

mode of nutrition. In this chapter, you will learn about animal nutrition which
include food nutrients. The competences developed will enable you to maintain
good eating habits so as to enhance general body health and well-being. This
tendency will enable you to avoid the risks of getting nutritional diseases and
disorders, as well as other nutritional problems.

Think involves nutrient requirement, mode of

The life of animals without nutrients taking food and its utilisation in the
animal body. Animal nutrition also
Concept of nutrition in animals focuses on the dietary nutrient needs of

Task 1.1 animals. Animals are heterotrophs since
they depend on other organisms for their
Search for information from the library nutritional needs.

and internet sources on the concept of
nutrition in animals. Write short notes Heterotrophic nutrition
on searched information. Heterotrophs are organisms that
cannot make their own food but rely
Nutrition refers to the study of the on cosuming other organism or organic
relationship between diet, health, and matter for energy and nutrients. The term
diseases. There are two major types of ‘hetero’ means different and ‘trophy’
nutrition based on how organisms obtain means feeding. Therefore, ‘heterotroph’
their food. These are autotrophic and
heterotrophic nutrition Animal nutrition means ‘different feeding’. Heterotrophs
feed on either different food substances

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