General Nutrition/Terminology

Question 1

What is a nutrient?

Answer 1

A chemical component that plays a specific structural or functional activity in the body

Question 2

Food/Diet

Answer 2

Anything that an animal eats

Question 3

Ration

Answer 3

Sequence/ Quantity of food

Question 4

Feeding Management

Answer 4

eating patterns of individual animals/herds on a daily basis

Question 5

What is protein necessary for?

Answer 5

Production of young, muscle maintenance, animal growth

Question 6

Function of iodine?

Answer 6

Primarily involved with thyroid hormones that regulate metabolism

Question 7

Function of Iron?

Answer 7

Involved in cellular respiration and oxygen transport via haemoglobin

Question 8

Function of Zinc?

Answer 8

Important in stress management, immune responses, enzyme systems and protein synthesis

Question 9

Function of Selenium?

Answer 9

It’s requirement is very close to its toxicity level

Question 10

Why cant sheep have copper?

Answer 10

Accumulates very quickly in the liver and kills them