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