How Nutrients Get In, And Wastes Out.

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Term Paper Title	How Nutrients Get In, And Wastes Out.
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How Nutrients Get in, and Wastes Out.

How Nutrients Get in, and Wastes Out.

By Faisal Premji
Science
10 Assignment -- Part B

In a human being, nutrients are necessary for survival.  But how are these
nutrients obtained?  This report will go into depth on how the food we eat gets
into our cells, and how the waste products that we produce get out of the body.
Also, the unicellular organism Paramecium will be compared with a human being,
in terms of all of the above factors.

Dietary Nutrients

The chief nutrients in a diet are classified chemically in four groups:
carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins (Which do not require digestion) and fats.

Carbohydrates in the diet occour mainly in the form of starches.  These are
converted by the digestive process to glucose,  one of the main nutrients needed
for cellular respiration to occour.  Starch is a large molecule, a polymer of
glucose.  Dextrin and maltose are intermediate products in the digestion of
starch.  Some foods contain carbohydrates in the form of sugars.  These are the
simple sugars, such as sucrose (cane sugar) or lactose (milk sugar), that must
be processed into smaller units.  Occasionally, the simplest form of sugar, a
monosaccharide such as glucose, is present in food.  These monosaccharides do
not require digestion.

Proteins are polymers composed of one or more amino acids.  When they are
digested, they produce free amino acids and ammonia.

Vitamins are a vital part of our food that are absorbed through the small
intestine.  There are two different types of vitamins, water-soluble (All the B
vitamins, and vitamin C) and fat-soluble (vitamins A, D and K).

Neutral fats, or triglycerides, are the principal form of dietary fat.  They are
simple compounds, and within digestion are broken down into glycerol and fatty
acids, their component parts.

Ingestion

Intake of food in the Paramecium is controlled by the needs of the cell.  When
food is sensed,  the organism guides itself towards the food, and guides it into
the oral groove, then enclosing it in a vacuole.  Enzymes are then secreted to
digest the food, which is then absorbed into the cytoplasm and made available to
the various organelles.  But, a Paramecium has to be able to move to its food
source, while a human cell has his food brought to it through the circulatory
system.   In man, a much more complicated system exists than that of a
unicellular organism, for the size of the animal and the fact that all of the
cells within the animal m...

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