Nutrition Final 1 Flashcards
What is nutrition?
The interrelated steps by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for growth, tissue repair and replacement, or elaboration of products.
What are the six categories of nutrients?
- Carbohydrates
- Fats/lipids
- Proteins
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Water
What are carbohydrates composed of?
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
What is the primary energy source for animals?
Carbohydrates
What are fats/lipids soluble in?
Organic solvents
What nutrient can be plant or animal origin?
Fats and lipids
Fats and lipids contain how much of the energy content of carbohydrates?
225%
What are proteins composed of?
Amino acids and peptide bonds
Proteins are responsible for
skeletal and muscular growth
How much nitrogen is in proteins?
16%
How much percent of non fat body mass is water in human body?
70%
What are the 3 forms of drinking water?
Free drinking water
Metabolic water
Feed water
Minerals
inorganic components of plant and animal tissue
What are the 2 groups of minerals?
Macrominerals and microminerals
Vitamins
Organic compounds that are not proteins, carbohydrates, or lipids that have a specific role in metabolism
What two groups are vitamins classified in?
Fat soluble and water soluble
What are factors play a role in nutrition
enzymes and hormones
Carnivores
Short uncomplicated large intestine, highly digestible diet, classified as hindgut fermenters
Herbivores and Omnivores
More complicated gastrointestinal tracts, diet varies in digestibility, modified to improve utilization of plant tissue
Types of Gastrointestinal tracts
- Monogastric (autoenzymatic digesters)
- Hindgut fermenters
- Ruminants (alloenzymatic)
Monogastrics
A single gastric stomach, enzymes for digestion are located within the animal, one long tube continually moves at a steady pace, no enzymes to digest cellulose
Ruminants
4 compartment stomach, enzymes are produced by microorganisms, feed is only chewed enough to be swallowed
Most particle size reduction is through..
microbial digestion
Hindgut fermenters (mix between monogastric and ruminant)
Chew food once, one compartment stomach, enlarged cecum, allows for microbial digestion of cellulose, feed travels at relatively constant pace, eat more per metabolic weight but digest less of low quality forages, coprophagy
What else can hindgut fermenters be classified as?
colonic fermenter and cecal fermenter
Digestion
Preparation of food for absorption