Animal Nutrition And Digestive Systems Flashcards
Stain small organisms or food particles from surrounding medium
Filter feeding. Ex. Humpback whale has a baleen removing small fish from lots of water
Performed by animals that live in or on their food source
Substrate feeding. Ex. Caterpillar on a leaf
Suck nutrient rich fluid from a living host
Fluid feeding. Ex. Hummingbirds with flower nectar
Consuming large pieces of food
Bulk feeding. Ex. Humans
One opening serving as mouth and anus
Flatwoods, comb jellies, coral, jellie fish, anemones use this type of digestion
Gadtrovascular cavity
Two openings mouth and Anusara with tube connecting them
Earthworm and grasshoppers snd bird use
Alimentary canal
Food travels through?
Alimentary canal (GI tract)
Single chambered stomach (humans)
Monogastric
Multiple chambered stomachs allowing more space for fermentation (cows goats sheeps)
Ruminants
Trace a particle of food through human digestive system
Mouth
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Duodenum
Jejunum
Illeum
Cecum
Ascending colon
Transverse colon
Descending colon
Sigmund colon
Rectum
Anus
Breaks down starch
Amylase
Breaks down fats
Lipase
Breaks down proteins
Pepsin or Trypsin
Name all digestive enzymes
Salivary amylase
Pancreatic amylase
Lingual lipase
Gastric lipase
Pancreatic lipase
Trypsin
Pepsin
Role and location of bacteria in the GI tract
Colon houses bacteria that is important for fermenting indigestible carbohydrates. Also produces vitamins. Form of mutualism
Open circulatory systems
Insects crustaceans and many mollusks
Closed circulatory system
Annelids squids and all types of vertebrates
Two chambered hearts
Bony fishes