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What is absorption?

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Taking the digested parts of food into the bloodstream?

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What is abomasum?

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Site of digestion and it’s also called a true stomach.

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What is amino acids?

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Compounds that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.

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What is anus?

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The opening at the end of the large intestine.

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What is avian digestive system?

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Found in poultry.

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What is bile?

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Is yellowish green, alkaline, bitter liquid produced in the liver.

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What is cecum?

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Blind gut where the small intestine joins the large intestine.

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What is chyme?

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As an acid, semfluid, gray, pulpy mass.

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What is crop?

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Where food is stored and soaked.

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What is cud?

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Ball like mass of food brought up from the stomach to be rechewed.

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What is digestion?

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Breaking down food into a simple substances that can be absorbed by the body.

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What is a digestive system?

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Parts of the body involved in chewing and digesting food.

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What is enzymes?

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Organic catalysts that speed up the digesting process

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What is eructated?

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(Belched up), chewed, than swallowed again.

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What is a feces?

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Food materials not digested or absorbed.

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What is a gizzard?

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Muscular organ, contains stones or grits

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What is a instetinal juice?

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Glands in the walls of the small intestine produce this. It contains peptidase, sucrase, Maltase, and lactase.

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What is monogastric digestive system?

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Simple digestion system, contains a single chambered stomach and is the type found in humans, swines, dogs, and cats.

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What is a omasum?

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Small compartment is the main sight of water. Is

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What are organs?

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Parts of the body or digestive system that perform specialized functions.

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What is pancreatic amylase?

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Changes starch in the food maltose.

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What is pancreatic juice?

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Secreted by pancreas, and contains the enzymes typsin, pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, and maltose.

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What is a pepsin?

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Breaks the proteins in the food into proteoses and peptones.

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What is a pseudo-ruminant digestive system?

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Found in animals that eat large amounts of roughages

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What is a reticulum

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Second segment I if the stomach and considered extension of the rumen.

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What is a rumen?

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The largest section of the stomach and first compartment where the food enters

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What is a ruminant?

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An animal with a ruminant digestive system.

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What is a salivary amylase?

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Changes starch to maltose, or malt sugar.

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What is a salivary Maltase?

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Changes maltose to glucose.

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What is a stomach?

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

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What is a trypsin?

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Breaks down proteins not broken down by pepsin.

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What is a villi?

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Small finger like projections on the walls.

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Rumination

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The process of chewing cud.