animal science johnathan. Flashcards
What is absorption?
Taking the digested parts of food into the bloodstream?
What is abomasum?
Site of digestion and it’s also called a true stomach.
What is amino acids?
Compounds that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
What is anus?
The opening at the end of the large intestine.
What is avian digestive system?
Found in poultry.
What is bile?
Is yellowish green, alkaline, bitter liquid produced in the liver.
What is cecum?
Blind gut where the small intestine joins the large intestine.
What is chyme?
As an acid, semfluid, gray, pulpy mass.
What is crop?
Where food is stored and soaked.
What is cud?
Ball like mass of food brought up from the stomach to be rechewed.
What is digestion?
Breaking down food into a simple substances that can be absorbed by the body.
What is a digestive system?
Parts of the body involved in chewing and digesting food.
What is enzymes?
Organic catalysts that speed up the digesting process
What is eructated?
(Belched up), chewed, than swallowed again.
What is a feces?
Food materials not digested or absorbed.
What is a gizzard?
Muscular organ, contains stones or grits
What is a instetinal juice?
Glands in the walls of the small intestine produce this. It contains peptidase, sucrase, Maltase, and lactase.
What is monogastric digestive system?
Simple digestion system, contains a single chambered stomach and is the type found in humans, swines, dogs, and cats.
What is a omasum?
Small compartment is the main sight of water. Is
What are organs?
Parts of the body or digestive system that perform specialized functions.
What is pancreatic amylase?
Changes starch in the food maltose.
What is pancreatic juice?
Secreted by pancreas, and contains the enzymes typsin, pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, and maltose.
What is a pepsin?
Breaks the proteins in the food into proteoses and peptones.
What is a pseudo-ruminant digestive system?
Found in animals that eat large amounts of roughages
What is a reticulum
Second segment I if the stomach and considered extension of the rumen.
What is a rumen?
The largest section of the stomach and first compartment where the food enters
What is a ruminant?
An animal with a ruminant digestive system.
What is a salivary amylase?
Changes starch to maltose, or malt sugar.
What is a salivary Maltase?
Changes maltose to glucose.
What is a stomach?
A muscular organ that stores ingested food and moves it into the small intestine.
What is a trypsin?
Breaks down proteins not broken down by pepsin.
What is a villi?
Small finger like projections on the walls.
Rumination
The process of chewing cud.
