Basic Nutrition Ruminant Digestion Monogastric Digestion Avian Digestion Classes of Nutrients
100
What is a substance that provides nourishment that is essential for growth and development and maintenance of life.
What is a nutrient
100
What is a term other than ruminant used to describe animals that have multiple chambered stomachs?
What is a Polygastric
100
What is the term used for a singular stomached animal
What is a monogastric
100
What is the organ that is a muscular pouch that stores food until the stomach is prepared for more?
What is the crop
100
What is the nutrient that is responsible for maintaining homeostasis in livestock species?
What is water
200
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
200
What is the chamber of the ruminant stomach that makes up approximately 80% of the capacity of the stomach?
What is the Rumen
200
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
200
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
200
What is the most expensive nutrient to feed to animals but is needed to develop muscle and tissue
What is protein
300
What is the process of providing or obtaining feedstuffs necessary for health and growth.
What is nutrition
300
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
300
What is the organ that is divided into three components the illeum, jejunum and duodenum.
What is the small intestine
300
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
300
What is the nutrient that provides 2.25 times more energy than carbohydrates
What is fats/lipids
400
What is the organ that is responsible for neutralizing toxic elements and waste
What is the liver
400
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
400
What is the most commonly thought of monogastric livestock specie?
What is a pig
400
What is the term used for the true stomach of the chicken?
What is the proventriculus
400
What nutrient is commonly found in forages and high fiber feeds?
What is a carbohydrate
500
What is the organ that is responsible for moving feedstuffs from the mouth to the stomach through peristaltic contractions.
What is the esophagus
500
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
500
What other living beings on the planet are commonly known for having monogastric digestive systems
What are humans
500
What is the organ that aids in digestion and creates fecal/urine mixture in poultry?
What is the ceca
500
What nutrient class is essential for bone formation, reproduction, lactation and prevention of disease?
What are vitamins






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