What is Nutrition? Why is the need of nutrition?

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Nutrition: All processes in which intake of food from the external environment takes place in any organism and these food materials release energy that is used in growth is called nutrition.
The need for Nutrition:
(1) For energy for movement.
(2) For the formation of protoplasm.
(3) For carrying out the chemical reactions in the metabolic process.

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