Basic Nutrition | Ruminant Digestion | Monogastric Digestion | Avian Digestion | Classes of Nutrients |
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What is a substance that provides nourishment that is essential for growth and development and maintenance of life.
What is a nutrient
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What is a term other than ruminant used to describe animals that have multiple chambered stomachs?
What is a Polygastric
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What is the term used for a singular stomached animal
What is a monogastric
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What is the organ that is a muscular pouch that stores food until the stomach is prepared for more?
What is the crop
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What is the nutrient that is responsible for maintaining homeostasis in livestock species?
What is water
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What is the system of organs from the mouth to the anus that breaks down feedstuffs and nutrients chemically and physically.
What is a gastrointestinal tract
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What is the chamber of the ruminant stomach that makes up approximately 80% of the capacity of the stomach?
What is the Rumen
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What is the term used to describe a monogastric animal with an enlarged cecum that allows them to digest forages?
What is a modified monogastric
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What is the organ that is the single exterior opening of the chicken that is designed to expel fecal matter, semen and eggs on a chicken.
What is the cloaca
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What is the most expensive nutrient to feed to animals but is needed to develop muscle and tissue
What is protein
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What is the process of providing or obtaining feedstuffs necessary for health and growth.
What is nutrition
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What is the first chamber of the ruminant stomach that has a honeycomb like structure and is designed to filter hardware and non feed components from entering the rest of the stomach?
What is the Reticulum
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What is the organ that is divided into three components the illeum, jejunum and duodenum.
What is the small intestine
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What is the organ that is known as the "mouth of the stomach" due to its mechanical grinding of food through contractions?
What is the gizzard
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What is the nutrient that provides 2.25 times more energy than carbohydrates
What is fats/lipids
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What is the organ that is responsible for neutralizing toxic elements and waste
What is the liver
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What is known as the "true stomach" of the ruminant and is responsible for producing HCL and Pepsin to chemically break down food.
What is the Abomasum
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What is the most commonly thought of monogastric livestock specie?
What is a pig
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What is the term used for the true stomach of the chicken?
What is the proventriculus
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What nutrient is commonly found in forages and high fiber feeds?
What is a carbohydrate
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What is the organ that is responsible for moving feedstuffs from the mouth to the stomach through peristaltic contractions.
What is the esophagus
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What is the chamber of the stomach that is designed to mechanically grind food and reduce particle size of digesta that appears as folded pages of a book on the inside?
What is the Omasum
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What other living beings on the planet are commonly known for having monogastric digestive systems
What are humans
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What is the organ that aids in digestion and creates fecal/urine mixture in poultry?
What is the ceca
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What nutrient class is essential for bone formation, reproduction, lactation and prevention of disease?
What are vitamins
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