Define the following terms: holophytic, holozoic, antagonistic muscles, anaerobic respiration, independent segregation (as in meiosis), natural selection, industrial melanism, osmosis, active transport.

... 3. Define the following terms: holophytic, holozoic, antagonistic muscles, anaerobic respiration, independent segregation (as in meiosis), natural selection, industrial melanism, osmosis, active transport. Holozoic Holozoic is a type of nutrition which concerns humans and other mammals. Food is taken into the digestion system and broken down, and the useful products absorbed. There is a great variety of feeding mechanisms among holozoic animals. Methods of feeding have been classified on the relative size of food particles ingested. See the table below for classification: Feeding by intake of small particles Feeding by intake of fluid food or soft tissue Feeding by intake of large particles Microphagous feeders Fluid feeders Macrophagous feeders So it basically means, feeding like an animal, taking organic matter in and digesting it into a form suitable for absorption, e.g. human nutrition. Holophytic Also known as autotrophic ('self nourishing'), most plants are autotrophs hence they make their own organic nutrients (food) from an external supply of relatively

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