Final Exam Flashcards
T or F: The most palatable feeds available will be used for the high-producing dairy cow in order to achieve high feed intake along with high production
True
T or F: A good source of protein in swine and poultry diets is urea
False
T or F: A feed with about the same feeding value as soybean meal for beef cattle is cottonseed meal
True
T or F: Without microbes in the rumen, ruminants could not digest hay and other feeds containing cellulose any better than we can.
True
T or F: Corn and other grains are fed primarily for the protein content
False
T or F: A good substitute for corn with about the same feeding value is grain sorghum (milo)
True
T or F: Lignin is completely indigestible, increases in a plant as it matures, and decreases the feeding value
True
T or F: A balance of amino acids in the protein of the ration is more important to the horses than it is to the cow
True
A big difference between ruminants and nonruminants is that ruminants rely on _______ much more for their source of energy
Volatiles Fatty Acids (VFAs)
Crude protein is determined by
Multiplying the % nitrogen by 6.25
A polyunsaturated fatty acid has (think about carbons and hydrogens)
Double bonds between carbons and less hydrogens than it could have
Excess protein in the diet
Is broken down and used for energy
What could result from limiting water to livestock
Poor growth, poor feed intake, increased body temp, and death
The difference between starch and cellulose is
Both are composed of glucose, and in starch, the glucose are connected with alpha bonds, whereas and cellulose, the glucose are connected with beta bonds.
What energy value best represents what an animal can actually use for productive purposes?
Net Energy
Which vitamin is not needed in the diet of any farm animals, but is needed in the diet of humans to prevent scurvy
Vitamin C
What substance emulsifies fat
Bile
What enzymes digest carbohydrates
Amylase
What substance digests fats from triglycerides to free fatty acids
Lipase
What is the end product of rumen fermentation of carbohydrates?
VFAs
Which amino acid is required and contains sulfur
Methionine
Which great person of the past provided his insight to investigate nutrition by feeding simplified diets, containing only corn and corn plant, or only wheat and wheat plant, or only oats and oat plant, which showed corn-fed cows performed better, and led to the astounding discovery of whole class nutrients, the vitamins, that were previously unknown?
Dr. Stephen Babcock
The reason B vitamins are not added routinely to beef cattle diets is that
Beef cattle are provided with the B vitamins naturally through the bacterial fermentation that takes place in their rumen
Water plays an essential role in
Maintaining body temperature
Many of the chemical reactions in the body
A symptom of low calcium in the blood of cows following calving:
Milk Fever
The symptom of a zinc deficiency include
Parakeratosis
The symptoms of an iodine deficiency include
Goiter
Which of the following not a monosaccharide
Sucrose (disaccharides)
Which of the following is blood sugar
Glucose
Which of the following is table sugar
Sucrose
Which of the following is not an essential fatty acid
Pantothenic acid
Which of the following is the main storage fatty acid in beef fat
Stearic acid
Which has the highest need for protein in the diet?
Dairy cow producing 80 pounds of milk per day
Table sugar is
A disaccharides composed of glucose and fructose
Which of the following is NOT one of the 10 essential amino acids for the rat and pigs
Thiamine
One difference between rations of poultry versus rations for pigs is that (think about essential amino acids)
Methionine, chicken needs more
Which nutrient corresponds to (is the same as or made from ) 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol
Vitamin D
Which nutrients corresponds to retinol
Vitamin A
Which nutrients corresponds to menadione and phylloquinone
Vitamin K
Which nutrients corresponds to ascorbic acid
Vitamin C
Which nutrients corresponds to cyanocobalamin
B12
Which nutrients corresponds to D-Alpha-tocopherol
Vitamin E
Which nutrients corresponds to carotene
Vitamin A
Which nutrient can be formed in the skin when exposed to sunlight
Vitamin D
Helped open the modern of nutrition by proposing a single plant feeding experiment
Stephen Babcock
Early observation published on nutritional physiology by collaborate with St. Alexio Martin
William Beaumont
The very first nutritional experiment recorded
Daniel
French scientist during the Age of Enlightenment, credited as being the Father of Nutrition. Credited with recognizing “Life is a chemical process”
Antoine Lavoisier
Observe sailors with scurvy; they were healed with citrus juice
Dr. James Lind
What fungus produces a deadly carcinogenic mycotoxin
Aspergillus flavus
What is the NAME of the deadly carcinogenic mycotoxin
Aflatoxin
What ORGANISM produces the mycotoxin that especially kills horses
Fusarium Moniliforme
What is the NAME of the mycotoxin that especially kills horses
Fumonison
What is the NAME of a mycotoxin that has a very strong feed refusal effects on pigs
Deoxynivalenol
What ORGANISM produces a toxin that has very strong feed refusal effects on pigs?
Fusarium Roseum (GIB)
What is the NAME of a mycotoxin that has estrogenic activity
Zearalenone
What is the name of the organism that produces a mycotoxin that has estrogenic activity
Fusarium Roseum (GIB)
What are carbohydrates made of
Simple Sugar
What nutrient would you supplement to prevent night blindness, keratomalacia, poor reproduction, increased incidence of infection, and integrity of epithelial tissues everywhere
Vitamin A
Which nutrient would you supplement to prevent encephalomalacia in birds, stiff lamb disease, white muscles disease, mulberry heat disease, degenerating livers in pigs and peroxidation of tissues by free-radicals in generals?
Vitamin E
T or F: Carbohydrates are made of C, H, O, just like fats, but they have much less oxygen than fats
False
T or F: glucose is a polysaccharides
False
Proteins are analyzed by determining the amount of what present
Nitrogen
Triglycerides are composed of
One glycerol, 3 fatty acids
Proteins are essential in the diet to supply
Amino Acids
The fat soluble vitamins are
A, D, E, K
T or F: Fat soluble vitamins are needed in large quantity for energy
False
The 2 minerals making up most of the bones are
Calcium, Phosphorus