Essential Nutrients
Nutrition
Digestion
Ruminant Digestion
Potpourri
100
The six essential nutrients in animal nutrition.
What are carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals?
100
The most important and often most overlooked nutrient.
What is water?
100
One livestock species that is a monogastric.
What is a pig?
100
One livestock species that is a ruminant.
What are sheep/cattle?
100
The digestive system type of a human.
What is monogastric.
200
This nutrient supplies the majority of energy in animal feeds.
What are carbohydrates?
200
The two salivary enzymes.
What are amylase and lipase?
200
Where primary absorption of nutrients occurs.
What is the small intestine?
200
List the four stomach compartments of a ruminant.
What are the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum?
200
Tube connecting mouth to stomach. 
What is the esophagus?
300
This nutrient builds and repairs tissues.
What is protein?
300
The difference between macro minerals and micro minerals.
Macro minerals are needed in large amounts, micro minerals are needed in smaller amounts. Macro minerals are salt compounds, micro minerals are metals
300
The feature of modified monogastrics that make them able to digest roughages.
What is the cecum?
300
This stomach compartment is a large fermentation vat where breakdown of roughages occurs.
What is the rumen?
300
The main digestive enzyme in the stomach. 
What is pepsin?
400
This nutrient supplies 2.25x the energy that carbohydrates does and is considered "concentrated energy".
What are fats?
400
The four fat-soluble vitamins.
What are vitamins A D, E and K?
400
Acid present in the stomach. 
What is HCL?
400
This stomach compartment in the ruminant is considered to be the most similar to the mono gastric stomach. The "true stomach".
What is the abomasum?
400
These increase surface area in the small intestines. 
What are villi?
500
These nutrients help with growth and development of the skeleton.
What are minerals?
500
The two water soluble vitamins. 
What B and C
500
Type of digestion in the rumen. 
What is microbial digestion?
500
This stomach compartment in the ruminant is also known as the "honeycomb".
What is the reticulum?
500
The type of digestion in the abomasum.
What is enzymatic?
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