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Question 1

What is prehension?

Answer 1

The taking up of food.

Question 2

What is the difference between a monogastric and ruminant animal?

Answer 2

Monogastric: 1 compartment to stomach
Ruminant: 4 parts to their stomach.

Question 3

What is the gizzard?

Answer 3

The hind part of the stomach.

Question 4

What is the difference between feed and food?

Answer 4

Feed is what humans give to hooved domesticated animals that they use for their benefit. Food is what humans eat themselves or give to pets.

Question 5

What is nutrition?

Answer 5

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Question 6

What is the difference between macro and micro minerals?

Answer 6

Macro minerals are necessary in larger amounts while micro minerals are necessary in smaller amounts.

Question 7

What is a nutrient?

Answer 7

A substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life

Question 8

What is a diet?

Answer 8

The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.

Question 9

What is a ration?

Answer 9

A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to a person or animal.

Question 10

What is feedstuffs?

Answer 10

A component of a ration or a diet that serves one or more functions.

Question 11

Protein can be defined as what?

Answer 11

A molecule made up of amino acids.

Question 12

What 2 groups do vitamins fall into?

Answer 12

Fat soluble and water soluble

Question 13

What is the reticular groove and why is it important?

Answer 13

A muscular structure extending from the cardia to the reticulo-omasal orifice. serves mainly as a bypass between the esophagus and the abomasum.

Question 14

What is mastication?

Answer 14

To grind, crush, and chew (food) with or as if with the teeth in preparation for swallowing.

Question 15

What is colic and how does it occur?

Answer 15

Broad veterinary term used to describe any form of abdominal pain.

Question 16

What does the gallbladder do?

Answer 16

It stores bile, a fluid produced by the liver that helps break down fatty foods.

Question 17

What are the 2 functions of the pancreas?

Answer 17

During digestion, your pancreas makes pancreatic juices called enzymes. Your pancreas also helps your digestive system by making hormones.

Question 18

What is a bolus?

Answer 18

A small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing.

Question 19

What do pelleted feeds provide? How?

Answer 19

Pelleted feeds are known to reduce both dust and waste when fed to livestock. The size and shape of the pellets allow for better flowability in feed bins and automatic feeders.

Question 20

what is crude protein

Answer 20

A measure of the amount of protein in a feed determined as the amount of nitrogen multiplied by 6.25.