This document discusses nutrition in plants and animals. It begins by introducing the group members and defining nutrition as the interaction of nutrients in food. It then describes two types of nutrition - autotrophic in plants which prepare their own food, and heterotrophic in organisms like humans which depend on other organisms for food. The document proceeds to discuss plant nutrition including photosynthesis, and animal nutrition exemplified by the processes in amoeba and the human digestive system.

1. NUTRITION

2. GROUP MEMBERS
• Lehan Fayaz ( Leader )
• Mohammed Mehboob
• Mohammed Naseer
• Minhaj Abdullah
• Abdul Rehman
• Sulaiman

3. INTRODUCTION
• Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction
of nutrients and other substances in food (e.g.
phytonutrients,anthocyanins, tannins, etc.) in relation
to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and
disease of an organism. It includes food intake,
absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism
and excretion.

4. MODES OF NUTRITION
AUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION
• Organisms that prepare their own
food are called autotrophs.
• Eg. Plants
HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION
• Organisms which depend on other
organisms for food are called
heterotrophs.
• Eg. Human beings
.

5. TYPES OF NUTRITION
•NUTRITION IN PLANTS
•NUTRITION IN ANIMALS

6. PLANT NUTRITION
• It is the study of the chemical elements and
compounds that are necessary for plant growth,
and also of their external supply and internal
metabolism. In 1972, E. Epstein defined two criteria
for an element to be essential for plant growth:
• in its absence the plant is unable to complete a
normal life cycle; or
• that the element is part of some essential plant
constituent or metabolite.

8. PHOTOSYNTHESIS
• It is the process by which plants prepare food by using
carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight
and chlorophyll. The food prepared is carbohydrate
which is stored in the form of starch. Oxygen is released
during this Process.
• EQUATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
• Sunlight
• 6CO2 + 12H20 -------------------------> C6H1206 + 6H20 + 6O2
• Chlorophyll
• 6CO2 + 6H2O ------> C6H12O6 + 6O2
• 6CO2 + 6H2O ------> C6H12O6 + 6O2

10. PROCESS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Photosynthesis mainly takes place in three steps:
• Absorption of Light Energy By Chlorophyll
• Conversion of Light energy into Chemical energy and
splitting up of water molecules into Hydrogen and Oxygen
• Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Hydrogen to form
Carbohydrates

11. ANIMAL NUTRITION

12. NUTRITION IN AMOEBA

13. • Amoeba is a unicellular animal living in water. It takes in
food by forming a finger like projections called
pseudopodia and forms a food vacuole. Inside the food
vacuole the food is digested and absorbed. The undigested
food is then sent out through the surface of the cell.

14. NUTRITION IN HUMAN BEINGS
• Nutrition in human beings take place in the digestive
system. It consists of the alimentary canal and glands which
produce enzymes which breaks down food into smaller
molecules.
• The main organs of the digestive system are mouth,
esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and
anus.
• The main glands are salivary glands, gastric glands, liver,
pancreas and intestinal glands.

17. WHAT HAPPENS TO FOOD AFTER
YOU EAT IT??
• In the mouth: The food is broken into smaller particles by the
teeth and mixed with saliva from the salivary glands. Saliva
contains the enzymes salivary amylase which converts
starch into sugar. Then the food passes through the
oesophagus.
• In the stomach: The gastric glands produce gastric juice
which contains the enzyme pepsin Hcl and mucous. Pepsin
breaks down proteins. Hcl makes the medium acidic and
helps in the action of pepsin. Mucous protects the wall of
the stomach from the action of the acid. Then the food
passes into the small intestine.

18. • In the upper part of the small intestine (duodenum):
The food is mixed with bile from liver and pancreatic juice from the
pancreas. Bile breaks down fats into globules. Pancreatic jiuce the
enzymes trypsin and lipase . Trypsin breaks down proteins and lapse
breaks down fats.
• In the small intestine :
The glands the walls of the small intestine produces intestinal juice.
The enzymes of the intestinal juice converts carbohydrates into
glucose fats into fatty acids and glycerol and proteins into amino
acids. The walls of the small intestine has several finger like
projections called villi having blood vessels. The digested food is
absorbed by the blood and the undigested food passes to the large
intestine.

19. • In the large intestine:
• Water is absorbed and the waste materials is removed through the anus.

20. • Thanks for your cooperation and patience.