Midterm 2 Lecture 10 Flashcards
What is digestion
The physical, chemical and enzymatic break down of food
What is a carnivore
Eats meat, ex) cats, dogs
What is a herbivore
Eats plants, ex) rabbits, horses, goats
What is a omnivore
Eats both plants and meats, Ex) humans, pigs ,chickens
What type of stomatch do non ruminanats have
Mono gastric meaning they don’t have a rumin
Where does the digestive system start
In the head gut it receives food
What does the foregut do
Move the food from the head gut or store food
What does the midgut do
The breakdown of big molecules and acids and fats get absorbed
What does the hindgut do
Absorb water and feces is formed and eliminated
What is pretension
The methods animals use to get food in their mouth
What is mastication
When animal is chewing
What is salivation
Produce liquid,buffers and salts to then moisten the food to then easily chew the food
What is deglutition
The process of swallowing
What is peristalsis
Muscle contractions that get the food down the digestive tract
What happens in the stomach (chemical digestion)
Acid (HCL) secretion which starts the digestive process by denaturing protein in food
What is in the small intestine
The mid gut and the hind gut
What type of digestion happens in the small intestine and large intestine
Enzymatic digestion
What are the 2 ways the diet of an animal is categorized
By its diet or by the type of stomach it has
What are the subtypes of being a mono gastric/non ruminants
Simple and more complex( has a functional cecum so it can use more fibrous feedstuff)
Functions of the GI tract
1) receiving (head gut)
2) conducting storing(foregut)
3) digestion/absorption(midgut)
4) absorbing water, defecting( hindgut)
What are the 3 types of digestion
Physical/mechanical , chemical, enzymatic
What is physical/ mechanical digestion
Pretension, mastication, salivation,deglutition, peristalsis