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Type of colon of dogs and cats
unsacculated colon (have little or no cecal capacity)
Ruminants, pseudoruminants, and nonruminats are what type of fermentors?
Pregastric
A horse has a digestive tract similar to what animal?
Hog
What digestive organ is absent in horses?
Gallbladder
Also called the true stomach in ruminants
Abomasum
The physiological maximum rumination time in cattle is
10-12 hrs/day
Term for the periodic belching of rumen gas
Eructation
Reticulorumen: Fermentation of carbohydrates results in the production of (3 answers)
Volatile fatty acids,
Carbon dioxide,
Methane
Reticulorumen: Fermentation of soluble proteins and amino acid results in the production of (2 answers)
Ammonia,
Volatile fatty acids
Reticulorumen: Unsaturated fatty acids are mostly modified into _____
trans-fatty acid
Most of the water-soluble vitamins are synthesized in great abundance at what part of the digestive tract (ruminants)?
Rumen
Most absorption of nutrients occurs in what parts of the small intestine? (2 answers)
Jejunum, Ileum
Vitamin synthesis occurs in what digestive organ?
Cecum
Which nutrient produces the highest metabolic water per gram of food?
Fat
In pig stomach, this is the site of production of acid digestive enzymes
Fundus