Use complete sentences to respond to the following questions.   The answers to
these questions can be found in chapter 8 of your Prentice-Hall textbook.

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1.    What are nutrients?
2.    What is nutrition?
3.    List six categories of nutrients in living things.

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4.    What is an autotrophic organism?   List examples of these.
5.    What is a heterotrophic organism.  List examples of these.

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6.    Explain how food energy is measured that we take into our body.
7.    List five factors which influence daily caloric needs between different humans.

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8.    What are the functions of proteins in our body?
9.    What are the functions of carbohydrate sugars in our body?
10.  What are the functions of carbohydrate starches in our body?
11.  What are the functions of water in our body?

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12.   What is fiber and what does it do in our body?

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13-17.  List five guidelines nutritionists have developed for our maintenance of a healthy
             diet