Animal Nutrition

3. a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
4. the chemical element of atomic number 20, a soft gray metal.
8. the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
10. fibrous indigestible material in vegetable foodstuffs which aids the passage of food and waste products through the gut.
11. a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain.
12. a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids

1. a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose.
2. the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.
5. increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules.
6. a group of organic compounds which are essential for normal growth and nutrition and are required in small quantities in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body.
7. a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
9. a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.