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Animal Nutrition Essentials Explained

The document discusses animal nutrition and how animals obtain nutrients from food to meet their energy needs through ATP production, biosynthesis, and obtaining essential nutrients like amino acids, fatty acids, and vitamins that animals cannot synthesize themselves.

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Animal Nutrition Essentials Explained

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Lesson 1 Animal and Plant Nutrition

Nutrition- process by which an animal takes in and makes use of food to meet these needs.
1. Fuel ATP Production
The activities of the cells, tissues, organs, and whole animals depend on sources of chemical energy in the
diet. This energy is used to produce ATP, which powers processes ranging from DNA replication and cell
division to vision and flight. To meet the need for ATP, animals ingest and digest the following nutrients:
carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.
2. For Biosynthesis
In order to build complex molecules it needs to grow, maintain itself, and reproduce, an animal’s food
must provide a source of organic carbon- sugar; and organic nitrogen-protein
3. Provision of Essential Nutrients
Essential Nutrients are substances an animal requires but cannot assemble from simple organic molecules.

a. Essential Amino Acids


 20 amino acids to make a complete protein
 Not all amino acids can be synthesized by most animals and humans.
 The remaining amino acids must be obtained from the animal’s food
 8 amino acids: isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine,
tryptophan, and valine.
b. Essential Fatty Acids
 Fatty acids synthesize a variety of cellular components: membrane
phospholipids, signaling molecules, and storage of fats.
c. Vitamins
 Organic molecules that are required in the diet in very small amounts 0.1-100 mg
per day, depending on the vitamin)

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