The process by which the body takes in and uses food and other sources of nutrients for growth and tissue repair is:
A. absorption
B. catabolism
C. nutrition
D. hemostasis
c
Rationale: Nutrition is the process of how the body takes in and uses food and other sources of nutrients for growth and the repair of tissues.
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