Animal science Flashcards

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Absorption

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Process of taking the digested parts of food into the bloodstream

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Abomasum

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True stomach is the site of digestion

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Amino acids

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are compounds that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen

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Anus

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The opening at the end of the large intestine

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Avian digestive system

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.is the type found in poultry

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Bile

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Is yellowish green bitter liquid produced in the liver

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Cecum

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Is found where the small intestine joins together with your large intestine

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Chyme

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The digested food that leaves your stomach to enter the small intestine as a acid

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Cud

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Is a ball like mass of food brought up from the stomach

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Crop

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Is where the food is stored and soaked

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Disgestion

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Process of breaking down food into simple substances that can be absorbed by the body

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Digestive system

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The parts of the body involved in chewing and digesting food

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Enzymes

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Are organic catalyst that speed up the digestive process

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Eructated

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Belched up, chewed and then swallowed again

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Feces

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Food materials not digested or absorbed

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Gizzard

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Is a very muscular organ, which normally contains stones or grit that grinds the food

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Intestinal juice

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Glands in the walls of the small intestine

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Mono gastric digestive system

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Simple digestive system. Contains a single chambered stomach and is the type found humans, swine,dogs and cats

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Omasum

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Is a small compartment that is the main sight for water absorption

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Organs

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Are parts that preform specialized functions

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Pancreatic amylase

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Changes starch in the food into maltose

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Pancreatic juice

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Secreted by the pancreas contains the enzymes trypsin, pancreatic amylase, and Maltase

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Pepsin

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Breaks the proteins in the food into proteoses and peptones

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Pseudo ruminant digestive system

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Is the type found in animals that eat large amounts of roughages but do not have stomachs with several compartments

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Reticulum

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Is the second segment of the stomach

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Rumen

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Largest section of the stomach and the first compartment that the food enters

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Ruminant

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An animal with a poli gastric digestive system

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Ruminant digestive system

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Contains one large stomach divided into four compartments which is a type found in cow

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Rumination

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Is the process of chewing your cud

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Salivary amylase

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Changes starch to maltose or malt sugar

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Salivary Maltese

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Changes maltose to glucose

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Stomach

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Is a muscular organ that stores ingested food and moves it into the small intestine.

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Trypsin

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Breaks down proteins that pepsin didn’t break down

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Villi

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Is the small finger like projections on the walls