Digestion

Question 1

What is prehension?

Answer 1

Catching food

Question 2

What is digestion?

Answer 2

the process of converting complex nutrients into forms that can be absorbed

Question 3

What is mastication?

Answer 3

Chewing

Question 4

What two types of digestion are there?

Answer 4

Chemical and microbial

Question 5

What type of digestion do carnivores have?

Answer 5

Chemical

Question 6

T/F Carnivores have an 80-90% meat based diet.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T/F Omnivores must digest meat and highly digestible plant components.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

T/F Grains are fruits are hard to digest.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

What kind of digestion do omnivores have?

Answer 9

Chemical and microbial (species dependent and very limited) digestion

Question 10

What is an example of a forage or rufage?

Answer 10

Hay, fruit

Question 11

Low digestible plant components are what?

Answer 11

high fiber and cellulose

Question 12

What is a herbivore’s PRIMARY type of digestion?

Answer 12

Microbial

Question 13

A dog, pig, cat, and human have a what tract?

Answer 13

Monogastric

Question 14

A cow has a what tract?

Answer 14

Ruminant

Question 15

A horse has a what tract?

Answer 15

Non-ruminant or Hindgut Fermenter

Question 16

A bird has a what tract?

Answer 16

Modified monogastric

Question 17

What is the mouth’s purpose?

Answer 17

Mastication, saliva,

Question 18

What is the esophagus’ purpose?

Answer 18

Transport

Question 19

What is the stomach’s purpose in a monogastric and non-ruminant?

Answer 19

Chemical digestion

Question 20

What is the stomach’s purpose in a ruminant?

Answer 20

Microbial digestion

Question 21

What is the small intestine’s purpose?

Answer 21

Digestion and little absorption

Question 22

What is the cecum’s purpose in a monogastric and ruminant?

Answer 22

blind pouch

Question 23

What is the cecum’s purpose in a non-ruminant?

Answer 23

Microbial digestion

Question 24

What is the large intestine’s purpose in a monogastric, ruminant, non-ruminant, and modified monogastric?

Answer 24

Water absorption

Question 25

What is the crop's purpose?

Answer 25

Moistening

Question 26

What is the proventriculus' purpose?

Answer 26

Chemical digestion

Question 27

What is the gizzard's purpose?

Answer 27

Mastication

Question 28

What is the cloaca?

Answer 28

3 way hole

Question 29

What are the four parts of a ruminant's stomach?

Answer 29

Rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum

Question 30

What four gastric glands are there?

Answer 30

Mucous cells, parietal cells, chief cells, and G cells

Question 31

Mucous cells

Answer 31

secrete alkaline mucus that protects the epithelium against shear stress and acid

Question 32

Parietal cells

Answer 32

secrete hydrochloric acid

Question 33

Chief cells

Answer 33

secrete pepsinogen (proteolytic enzyme)

Question 34

G cells

Answer 34

secrete gastrin

Question 35

Gastric glands are located where?

Answer 35

the stomach

Question 36

What does the proximal section of the small intestine do?

Answer 36

Chemical digestion

Question 37

What does the distal section of the small intestine do?

Answer 37

Nutrients absorption

Question 38

What is the gall bladder?

Answer 38

storage of bile (digestion of fats)

Question 39

What is pancreatic secretion?

Answer 39

amylase, lipase, protease, bicarbonate

Question 40

What is amylase?

Answer 40

Complex sugars

Question 41

What is lipase?

Answer 41

fats

Question 42

What is protease?

Answer 42

proteins

Question 43

What is bicarbonate?

Answer 43

HCO3

Question 44

Amylase turns what into what?

Answer 44

Complex carbohydrates into glucose

Question 45

Protease turns what into what

Answer 45

Proteins into amino acids

Question 46

Lipase turns what into what?

Answer 46

Complex lipids into fatty acids

Question 47

The reticulum has a what patter?

Answer 47

honeycomb

Question 48

The rumen has a what patter?

Answer 48

papillae

Question 49

The abomasum has a what pattern?

Answer 49

layers (pages of a book)

Question 50

The omasum has a what pattern?

Answer 50

Cells!

Question 51

What gives structure to plants?

Answer 51

lignin

Question 52

T/F Lignin is easy to digest

Answer 52

False

Question 53

VFA's stand for what?

Answer 53

Volatile fatty acids

Question 54

T/F VFA's go through the rumen's papillae to get into the bloodstream

Answer 54

True!

Question 55

Bacteria turns into what VFA

Answer 55

butyrate

Question 56

Protozoa turns into what VFA?

Answer 56

propionate

Question 57

Fungi turns into what VFA?

Answer 57

acetate

Question 58

In ruminants, the what directs milk to the abomasum?

Answer 58

esophageal groove

Question 59

What diet helps develop the rumen better?

Answer 59

milk and grain

Question 60

Cecotrophy/coprotrophy

Answer 60

eating poop :o

Question 61

Where does fermentation happen in non-ruminants?

Answer 61

large intestine