Terminology Review

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Across
  1. 2. Increase in body weight or size, This may or may not include an adjustment for composition.
  2. 4. Preparation of food or feed for absorption, includes physical, chemical, and microbial action.
  3. 6. Nutrients that are required in the diet because they cannot be synthesized in the body in sufficient quantities to satisfy metabolic needs.
  4. 7. The harvesting or refinement of something natural.
  5. 9. Increase in cell number
  6. 10. Portion of food nutrients which support bodily processes which go on regardless of new tissue development or products formed.
  7. 12. Sum of all biochemical processes that nutrients undergo to furnish energy and build new tissues.
  8. 13. Build up
Down
  1. 1. Any chemical element or compound in the diet that supports normal maintenance of life processes, reproduction, growth, or lactation
  2. 3. Increase in cell size
  3. 4. The amount of nutrient absorbed by the animal
  4. 5. The sum of all processes by which an organism takes in and assimilates food, including digestion and absorption for, maintenance, promoting growth, and reproduction.
  5. 8. Break down
  6. 11. Passage of food or nutrients from the gastrointestinal (GI)traction into the blood stream and its distribution.