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What are the intestines

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Elgongated tube normally divided into small and large intestines

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What is the process called by which food moves along the digestive tract

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Peristalsis

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What protects the gut tube walls

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Mucous protects the gut tube walls from enzymes

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What provides lubrication in the gut

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Mucous

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Intestinal glands produce what and what do they breakdown.

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Enzymes to breakdown carbohydrates, proteins and lipids

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What nutrients are absorbed back into the intestines

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Carbohydrates
Amino acids
Fatty acids
Water

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Small intestine are often ______ but _______ in diameter

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Long, small

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What are the 3 regions of the small intestine

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Duodenum
Jejunum
Ileum

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What is the duodenum

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First part of the small intestine which receives chyme from the stomach and exocrine secretions from the liver and pancreas

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Brunners glands in the walls of the duodenum help what

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Help to neutralise acid from the stomach

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The large intestine is ______ but ______ than the small intestine

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Shorter, wider

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What does the large intestine pass to

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The anal opening or the cloaca

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What does the rectum act as

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A store

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What are sphincter muscles in the intestine

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Control release of content

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What is the cloaca

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Derived from the proctodeum at the end of the embryonic gut tube

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What animals is the cloaca not present in

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Fish or most mammals

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What is the coprodeum

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The large intestine empties here

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What do goblet cells secrete

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Mucus

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What do enteroendocrine cells secrete

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Hormones

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What do enterocytes do

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Absorb water and electrolytes

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Water absorption takes place where

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Large intestine

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How do you maximise nutrient intake

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Increase time food spends in the digestive tract to maximise nutrient intake

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What is the spiral valve

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Helical partition in the gut tube that forces food to wind around a spiral channel, increasing the time spent in the intestines

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What are the longitudinal folds in larval called

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Typhlosole

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For is the crop used for
Temporary storage
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What is the spiral valve
Helical partition in the gut up that forces food to wind around a spiral channel therefore increase time spent in the intestines and also increase SA
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In lower vertebrates what issues do th y have How many bones of the "basic plan" th the large intestine
The do not concentrate urine well so electrolytes and water released by kidneys resorbed by large intestine
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What does retrograde peristalsis do
Push digesta from cloaca to large intestine for further resorption
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What is the GALT
Gut Associated Lymphatic Tissue
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What is the function of the GALT
Defence against ingested pathogens and parasites
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Large intestine empties where
Coprodeum
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Urogenital empties where
Urodeum
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Down regulation after food has been digested does what
Decrease in cell proliferation (birds and mammals) or epithelial folding (reptiles)
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Mechanical breakdown of food allows what
Allows pieces to b reduced in size and then swallowed
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What is mastication
Chewing
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What may be used to grind food against stones
Gizzard
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Carnassial teeth allow for what
Allow soft, sinewy food to be sliced
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What kind of food do carnivores eat
Relatively low fibre
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What types of food do herbivores eat
Fibrous, cellulose rich food
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The front teeth in herbivores do
Front teeth snip vegetation and back teeth grind food to break down tough outer layer
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What is the function of the back teeth of omnivore
Used to compress hard, brittle foods such as nuts and seeds
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What enzymes breakdown food
Proteases (proteins), lipases (fats), cellulases, amylase (carbohydrates)
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What are the end products of digestion
Amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals
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What is cellulose
A structural component of all plants and as such is an extremely important carbohydrate
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Is cellulose insoluble or soluble
Insoluble and very resistant is o chemical attack
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Can vertebrate species make cellulose
No
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What are the four stages of gastric fermentation
Swallow -> mix-> re-mastication-> passage
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How is food mixed and then regurgitated
Complicated waves of contraction
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What is intestinal fermentation
Microbial digestion of cellulose in the intestine
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What animals does intestinal fermentation occur
Birds, rabbits, horses and pigs
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What is gastric fermentation good at
Extracting the most from low-quality foods
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Nutrients being released early in the digestive tract allows what
More time to absorb them and being able to re-chew food enables a thorough mechanical breakdown of the plant cell walls
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What gas is used in the gastric fermentation
Nitrogen is used as a resource (not a waste product) important in low diets
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What is taken into the camels rumen and turned into ammonia
Urea
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What are the advantages of intestinal fermentation
Food passes through much of the digestive tract prior to fermentation which allows soluble nutrients such as glucose, proteins and carbohydrates to be absorbed before fermentation starts. These nutrients may be lost in gastric fermentation. Much faster which allows quick absorption of high quality nutrients and release of low quality component of forage.
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What do some intestinal fermenters also practice
Coprophagy and re-ingest faeces to pass nutrients through the digestive tract a second time
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The smaller the animal, the ________ the metabolic rate, the greater the need to digest nutrients quickly
Higher
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Small herbivores are more like to be what fermenters
Intestinal
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Large herbivores are most likely to be what fermenters
Gastric
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Many plants use toxins for what
A form of defence- chemicals make food unpalatable or actually poisonous
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What animals use toxins as a defence
Amphibians
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What does ruminant saliva contain
Proteins that bind with tannins to reduce the toxicity and reduce effects on digestibility
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What do tannins do
Will normally bind with proteins making them hard to digest
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Ruminants who eat a large quantity of tannin-rich food will have what
Large salivary glands

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