What is nutrition? Explain the different stages in the process of nutrition.

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The process of intake of food and its utilization by organisms is called nutrition. The different stages in the process of nutrition are as follows:

Ingestion – The first step of taking in food.

Digestion – The process in which organic factors of food are broken down into simpler components.

Absorption – The process of receiving digested food into the body.

Assimilation – The process in which absorbed components become part of the body.

Egestion – The process in which unwanted by products are removed from the body.

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