What is difference between Absorption and Assimilation?

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Nutrition in Humans:
The process of nutrition in humans involves five steps. They’re as follows:
Ingestion- It is the process of taking food into the digestive tract where the food is masticated and mixed with saliva for easy swallowing.
Digestion- It is the breakdown of complex insoluble food molecules into simple water-soluble fragments.
Absorption- It is the process of absorbing simple water-soluble fragments into bloodstream.
Assimilation- It is a process of carrying absorbed simple molecules to different organs of the body by blood vessels to build complex substances like proteins.
Egestion- It is a process of excretion of undigested food in the form of faeces.
Absorption:
It is the process of absorbing end products of digestion into the bloodstreamof of bloodstream or lymph from the intestinal mucosa.
It occurs in the small intestine.
Assimilation:
It is the process of carrying absorbed simple molecules to different organs of the body by blood vessels to build macromolecules.
These macromolecules are responsible for cell growth and development.
It also occurs in the small intestine.
Absorption
Assimilation
It is the process of carrying digested food in the form nutrients to blood stream.
It is the process of carrying absorbed nutrients to cells of different organs in the form energy.
Absorption occurs only after digestion of food (not for liquids).
Assimilation occurs only for the absorption of nutrients.
During Absorption, nutrients are carried to the blood stream
During Assimilation, nutrients are consumed from the blood stream
The key products of Absorption are fructose, amino acids, fatty acids, etc.
The key products of assimilation are new proteins.

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The correct order of steps occurring in nutrition in animals is :

(a)Ingestion $\to$ Absorption $\to$ Digestion $\to$ Assimilation $\to$ Egestion
(b)Ingestion $\to$ Digestion $\to$ Assimilation $\to$ Absorption $\to$ Egestion

(c)Ingestion $\to$ Digestion $\to$ Absorption $\to$ Assimilation $\to$ Egestion
(d) Ingestion $\to$ Assimilation $\to$ Digestion $\to$ Absorption $\to$ Egestion

Q. The correct order of steps occurring in nutrition in animals is:
(a) Ingestion → Absorption → Digestion → Assimilation → Egestion
(b) Ingestion → Digestion → Assimilation → Absorption → Egestion
(c) Ingestion → Digestion → Absorption → Assimilation → Egestion
(d) Ingestion → Assimilation → Digestion → Absorption → Egestion

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Absorption	Assimilation
It is the process of carrying digested food in the form nutrients to blood stream.	It is the process of carrying absorbed nutrients to cells of different organs in the form energy.
Absorption occurs only after digestion of food (not for liquids).	Assimilation occurs only for the absorption of nutrients.
During Absorption, nutrients are carried to the blood stream	During Assimilation, nutrients are consumed from the blood stream
The key products of Absorption are fructose, amino acids, fatty acids, etc.	The key products of assimilation are new proteins.