Photosynthesis and digestion key terms
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- Photosynthesis and digestion key terms
- Digestion
- Ingestion
- Taking food into the body
- Digestion
- Breaking down food so that it can be used
- Absorption
- Taking nutrients
- Assimilation
- Using the nutrients
- Egestion
- Removal of indigestible material
- Enzyme
- An enzyme is a biological catalyst which speeds up the rate of reaction while hot, being used up itself (salivary anylase)
- Anylase
- Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down starch, converting it into sugars.
- Ingestion
- Photosynthesis
- Plant method of making food.
- Chlorophyll
- The green pigment inside the chloroplasts absorb the sunlight for photosynthesis
- Transpiration
- Evaporation of water from leaves.
- NPK
- Nitrogen, phosphorous, patassium
- Digestion
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