animal science vocab terms alyssa

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Absorption

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Process of taking the digested parts of food into the bloodstream

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Abomasum

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Amino Acids

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Are compounds that contain carbon hydrogen oxygen and nitrogen

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Anus

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Opening at the end of the large intestine butt hole

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Avian Digestive system

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Bile

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Yellowish green alkaline bitter liquid produced in the liver digestion of fats and fatty acids

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Cecum

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Blind gut is found where the small intestine joins the large intestine

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Chyme

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Acidic semifluid gray pulpy mass

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Crop

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Where the food is stored and soaked.

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Cud

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

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Digestion

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Is the process of breaking down food into simple substances that can be absorbed by the body

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Enzymes

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Organic catalysts they speed up the digestive process

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Digestive system

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Consists of the parts of the body involved in chewing and digesting food also moves the digested food through the animals body and absorbs the products of digestion

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Eructated

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Feces

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Food materials not digested or absorbed basically poop

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Gizzard

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Very muscular organ

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Intestinal juice

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Fluid that contains peptidase sucrase maltase lactase all enzymes used in digestion

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Monogastric digestive system

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Simple digestive system and contains a single chambered stomach and is the type found in humans swine dogs and cats

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Omasum

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Organs

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Parts that preform specialized functions

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Pancreatic juice

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Secreted by the pancreas contains the enzymes trypsin pancreatic amylase pancreatic lipase and maltase

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Pepsin

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Breaks the proteins in the food into proteoses and peptones

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Pseudo ruminant digestive system

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Reticulum

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Rumen

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Is the largest

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Ruminant digestive system

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Polygastric system (many) contains one large stomach divided into four compartments and is type found in cattle sheep and goats

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Rumination

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The process of chewing cud

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Salivary amylase

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Changes starch to maltose or malt sugar

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Salivary Maltese

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Changes maltose to glucose

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Stomach

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Is a muscular organ that stores ingested food and moves it into the small intestine

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Trypsin

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Break down proteins not broken down by pepsin

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Villi

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Key to absorption in the large intestine is the small finger like projections on the walls

Question 32

Pancreatic amylase

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Changes starch in the food to maltose