food deception

Examples of food deception in the following topics:

• Pollination by Bats, Birds, Wind, and Water

  • Flowers often attract pollinators with food rewards, in the form of nectar.
  • They use a method known as food deception, in which bright colors and perfumes are offered, but no food.
  • The bumblebee, its main pollinator, is attracted to the flower because of the strong scent, which usually indicates food for a bee.
  • Other orchids use sexual deception .
  • Certain orchids use food deception or sexual deception to attract pollinators.

• Food Chains and Food Webs

  • A food web describes the flow of energy and nutrients through an ecosystem, while a food chain is a linear path through a food web.
  • Both energy and nutrients flow through a food web, moving through organisms as they are consumed by an organism above them in the food web.
  • A single path of energy through a food web is called a food chain.
  • In both food webs and food chains, arrows point from an organism that is consumed to the organism that consumes it.
  • Distinguish between food chains and food webs as models of energy flow in ecosystems

• Ingestion

  • Obtaining nutrition and energy from food is a multi-step process.
  • For animals, the first step is ingestion, the act of taking in food.
  • The large molecules found in intact food cannot pass through the cell membranes.
  • The first step in this process is ingestion: taking in food through the mouth.
  • While the food is being mechanically broken down, the enzymes in saliva begin to chemically process the food as well.

• Neural Responses to Food

  • In reaction to the smell, sight, or thought of food, the first hormonal response is that of salivation.
  • Simultaneously, the stomach begins to produce hydrochloric acid to digest the food .
  • The response to food begins even before food enters the mouth.
  • The central nervous system prepares the stomach to receive food.
  • The gastric phase begins once the food arrives in the stomach.

• Digestive System: Mouth and Stomach

  • All mammals have teeth and can chew their food.
  • As food is chewed, saliva, produced by the salivary glands, mixes with the food.
  • Saliva contains mucus that moistens food and buffers the pH of the food.
  • When swallowing, the epiglottis closes the glottis, allowing food to pass into the esophagus, not into the trachea, preventing food from reaching the lungs.
  • Digestion of food begins in the (a) oral cavity.

• Bacterial Foodborne Diseases

  • Food is not an exception.
  • Most of the time, prokaryotes colonize food and food-processing equipment in the form of a biofilm.
  • Outbreaks of bacterial infection related to food consumption are common.
  • A foodborne disease (colloquially called "food poisoning") is an illness resulting from the consumption of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or other parasites that contaminate food.
  • All types of food can potentially be contaminated with bacteria.

• Food Energy and ATP

  • Animals use energy for metabolism, obtaining that energy from the breakdown of food through the process of cellular respiration.
  • Animals need food to obtain energy and maintain homeostasis.
  • The energy it takes to maintain this body temperature is obtained from food.
  • The process of converting glucose and excess ATP to glycogen and the storage of excess energy is an evolutionarily-important step in helping animals deal with mobility, food shortages, and famine.
  • Summarize the ways in which animals obtain, store, and use food energy

• Digestive Systems

  • Animals use the organs of their digestive systems to extract important nutrients from food they consume, which can later be absorbed.
  • The conversion of the food consumed to the nutrients required is a multi-step process involving digestion and absorption.
  • During digestion, food particles are broken down to smaller components which will later be absorbed by the body.
  • It is responsible for processing ingested food and liquids.
  • The functions of the digestive system can be summarized as follows: ingestion (eat food), digestion (breakdown of food), absorption (extraction of nutrients from the food), and defecation (removal of waste products).

• Main Structures and Summary of Photosynthesis

  • The basic equation for photosynthesis is deceptively simple.

• Food Requirements and Essential Nutrients

  • Fats add flavor to food and promote a sense of satiety or fullness.
  • Vitamins and minerals are substances found in the food we eat.
  • Fat-soluble vitamins are found primarily in foods that contain fat and oil, such as animal fats, vegetable oils, dairy foods, liver, and fatty fish.
  • However, you do not need to eat foods containing these every day.
  • The rest must be obtained from food.