What is the compartment that collect objects that shouldn't be in digestive system (nails, screws, bailing wire)
Looks like a honeycomb
Magnets place into many dairy animals reticulums
100
In what order does food travel in a non-ruminant?
What is
1. esophagus
2. stomach
3. small intestine
4. cecum
5. large intestine
200
What do all ruminants have in common
What is they all live off of grass, and other roughages
200
What do ruminants have in common? (what do they eat)
What is they all live off of high energy, low fiber food such as grains.
200
What does monogastric mean?
What is one stomach
200
What is the rumen?
What is a large fermentation vat
Some nutrients absorbed
Roughages reduced in size
200
Are humans non-ruminants?
What is yes
300
How many compartments is the stomach broken up into?
What is 4
300
How many compartments does a non-ruminant have in its stomach
What is one
300
What is methane?
What is gas that a cow produces
300
What is the omasum?
What is the compartment that removed water from food
Absorbs fatty acids
Also known as the milk stomach
Has a nickname of "manyplies" because of how it looks
400
What are the four compartments in a ruminants stomach?
What is abomasum, omasum, reticulum, rumen
400
Non-ruminants are also known as
What is monogastrics
400
A disease that cows get if nails, screws, or metal is left in their reticulum too long?
What is hardware disease
400
What is the abomasum?
What is the glandular stomach
Most like ours
Breaks down food stuff further for absorption
Absorbs some nutrients
Also called the "true stomach"
500
In what order does food travel in the compartments in the ruminant stomach?
What is rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum.
500
Non-ruminants are unable to digest large quanitities of fiber unless they have an enlarged what?
What is enlarged cecum. (horses, rabbits, and guinea pigs have an enlarged cecum)
500
In non-ruminants, what is the cecum?
What is a blind pouch at the first portion of the large intestine.