All about Nutrients
A lot of people wonder what a nutrient is and what is it used for.
Simply put Nutrients are essential to an organism if it cannot be synthesized by the organism in sufficient quantities and must be obtained from an external source. A chemical that an organism needs to live and grow or a substance used in an organism’s metabolism which must be taken in from its environment.
Methods for nutrient intake vary, with animals and protist consuming foods that are digested by an internal digestive system, but most plants ingest nutrients directly from the soil through their roots or from the atmosphere.
