General Science Grade 7 Chapter 1: Nutrition in plants, Class 1 CLASS NOTES All living things need food. The food should contain nutrients such as, Carbohydrates Minerals Fat Vitamins Protein Nutrients are chemical compounds in the food that helps living things to grow to remain healthy to build body to repair damaged body parts to provide energy to carry out the living functions Nutrition The process by which living organisms obtain nutrients or the way of taking food is called nutrition. Based on the mode of nutrition, living things are grouped as autotrophs or heterotrophs. Autotrophs Auto means ‘self&rsquo ...
Nutritional deficiency Diseases in fishes Introduction • Nutritional disease has been defined as those which can be attributed to deficiency, excess or improper balance of components present in a fish diet. • If food contain all necessary components in proper balance, a nutritional disease is possible. Types of Nutritional Diseases • It falls under four categories, namely: Those arising from under nutrition or dietary deficiencies or imbalances in major components of food (Macro nutrients – protein, CHO, fat; Micro nutrients – Thyroid tumour, Nutritional gill disease, vitamin A imbalance, Nutritional anemia) Those arising from over nutrition (amino acid toxicity, oxidation ...
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