Terminology
Breaking feed into simple substances
What is digestion?
Animals with a single stomach chamber. Simple-stomach that uses acid to break down feedstuffs.
What are monogastric (non-ruminants) animals/digestive systems?
Where digestion begins
What is the mouth?
This chamber stores large amounts of food where microbes break down roughages.
What is the rumen?
Takes in food whole (no teeth)
What is the beak?
Movement of nutrients into the bloodstream
What is absorption?
Animals with multiple stomach compartments. They rely on this specialized stomach to break down rouchages.
What are ruminant animals/digestive systems??
Moves food from mouth to stomach
What is the esophagus?
Squeezes and grinds feed to remove liquid for water absorption.
What is the omasum?
Stores and softens food.
What is the crop?
Small mass of swallowed food. Only feed and saliva mixed together.
What is a bolus?
Type of animal that digests roughages mostly in the cecum, or the back portion of the digestive system?
What are hindgut fermenters? (hindgut fermenter animals/digestive systems)
What is the stomach?
Has a honeycomb lining and works as a filter for the ruminant stomach.
What is the recticulum?
The "true stomach" of the avian digestive system.
What is the proventriculus?
The more common term for reverse peristalsis. Ruminants do this to breakdown feed further.
What is rumination?
Animals that use a gizzard to grind food and a crop to soften food.
What are avian digestive systems?
Where most nutrients are absorbed
What is the small intestine?
The "true stomach" of the ruminant digestive system.
What is the abomasum?
Crushes food using grit and gravel
What is the gizzard? (What is the ventriculus?)
Wave-like muscle contractions that move food down the esophagus and through the intestines.
What is peristalsis?
What type of digestive system do the following animals have?
A. Sheep
B. Pig
C. Horse
A. Ruminant
B. Monogastric
C. Hindgut fermenter
Absorbs water, adds mucus to undigested food and forms feces
What is the large intestine?
What is the cecum?
Where digestive and reproductive tracts combine.
What is the cloaca?