Midterm Flashcards
How do animals loose water from their bodies?
Urination, Respiration, & Defecation
What is a nutrient?
A nutrient is anything the animal consumes and gets energy from & is any chemical element or compound in the diet that is required for normal reproduction, growth, lactation, or maintenance of life processes
True or false: A “balanced diet” means diet that has the correct nutrients, in the proper amounts, that an animal needs to be healthy.
True
What is energy utilized in the animal’s body for?
Locomotion, thermoregulation, & biochemical reactions
Protein quality is:
Measured based on digestibility and availability of amino acids
Protein requirements are:
increase growing, lactating, and healing animals
True or false: Monosaccharides, such as glucose and galactose, have a general formula C6H12O6
True
What is a mixture of feedstuff called that is used to supply nutrients to an animal?
Diet
What is the qualitative and quantitative requirements of the diet necessary to maintain proper health called?
Nutrition
What is an edible material that provides nutrients for animals called?
Feed
What is any material made into or used as food called?
Foodstuff
What is a nutrient, can come from food, and comes from metabolism in the body?
Water
What does a good zoo nutrition program consist of?
A record keeping system, it’s scientifically based, and includes keepers who care
What are loss of skin elasticity, loss of appetite, and reduced energy signs of?
Dehydration
True or false: Carbohydrates are the most abundant nutrient in plants, while animal tissues have only trace amounts
True
What does GE refer to?
Gross Energy
What does ME refer to?
Metabolizable Energy
What do lipids include?
Cholesterol & vegetable oils
True or false: Water is required by animals in larger amounts than any other nutrient
True
What is stored in the body as glycogen and fat and may require specific digestive enzymes to break them down to be absorbed in the digestive tract?
Carbohydrates
How should food be presented?
In a way that it stays clean, makes sure the correct species gets it in a mixed species exhibit, and so that an animal can eat it
True or false: The basic equation of metabolism in the body is C6H12O6 <—– —-> 6H2O + 6CO2
True
What are polysaccharides, fructose, & cellulose?
Carbohydrate
What are methionine, taurine, tryptophan, & contains nitrogen?
Amino acids
What are linoleic acid & linolenic acid?
Fatty acids
What are methionine, fructose, linoleic acid, taurine, polysaccharides, cellulose tryptophane, linolenic acid, and contains nitrogen?
Organic molecules
Body water is:
Mostly found in cells and found in extracellular space
