Midterm

Question 1

How do animals loose water from their bodies?

Answer 1

Urination, Respiration, & Defecation

Question 2

What is a nutrient?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

True or false: A “balanced diet” means diet that has the correct nutrients, in the proper amounts, that an animal needs to be healthy.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is energy utilized in the animal’s body for?

Answer 4

Locomotion, thermoregulation, & biochemical reactions

Question 5

Protein quality is:

Answer 5

Measured based on digestibility and availability of amino acids

Question 6

Protein requirements are:

Answer 6

increase growing, lactating, and healing animals

Question 7

True or false: Monosaccharides, such as glucose and galactose, have a general formula C6H12O6

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is a mixture of feedstuff called that is used to supply nutrients to an animal?

Answer 8

Diet

Question 9

What is the qualitative and quantitative requirements of the diet necessary to maintain proper health called?

Answer 9

Nutrition

Question 10

What is an edible material that provides nutrients for animals called?

Answer 10

Feed

Question 11

What is any material made into or used as food called?

Answer 11

Foodstuff

Question 12

What is a nutrient, can come from food, and comes from metabolism in the body?

Answer 12

Water

Question 13

What does a good zoo nutrition program consist of?

Answer 13

A record keeping system, it’s scientifically based, and includes keepers who care

Question 14

What are loss of skin elasticity, loss of appetite, and reduced energy signs of?

Answer 14

Dehydration

Question 15

True or false: Carbohydrates are the most abundant nutrient in plants, while animal tissues have only trace amounts

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What does GE refer to?

Answer 16

Gross Energy

Question 17

What does ME refer to?

Answer 17

Metabolizable Energy

Question 18

What do lipids include?

Answer 18

Cholesterol & vegetable oils

Question 19

True or false: Water is required by animals in larger amounts than any other nutrient

Answer 19

True

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Carbohydrates

Question 21

How should food be presented?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

True or false: The basic equation of metabolism in the body is C6H12O6 <—– —-> 6H2O + 6CO2

Answer 22

True

Question 23

What are polysaccharides, fructose, & cellulose?

Answer 23

Carbohydrate

Question 24

What are methionine, taurine, tryptophan, & contains nitrogen?

Answer 24

Amino acids

Question 25

What are linoleic acid & linolenic acid?

Answer 25

Fatty acids

Question 26

What are methionine, fructose, linoleic acid, taurine, polysaccharides, cellulose tryptophane, linolenic acid, and contains nitrogen?

Answer 26

Organic molecules

Question 27

Body water is:

Answer 27

Mostly found in cells and found in extracellular space