Monogastric
What is a monogastric?
Has 1 stomach
What is a modified monogastric?
What is a ruminant?
4 stomachs and working cecum
What is the function of the gall bladder?
Liquid goes into SI and breaks down fat.
What nutrient is broken down in the mouth?
Give an example of a monogastric farm animal.
Pig, all birds, cat, dog
What is an example of a modified monogastric?
Horse & rabbit
Cattle, sheep, goats
What is the function of the large intestine?
What 2 functions happen in the rumen that involve plant material (not the absorption of protein)?
Rechewing and making food smaller and protozoa and bacteria break down the food
List 2 of the 4 functions of the monogastric stomach.
HCL Acid breaks down protein & liquifies food, churning, and mucus protects stomach from HCl Acid
What 2 substances break down plant material in the cecum?
protozoa and bacteria
What 2 organs break down plant material using protozoa and bacteria?
rumen and cecum
What is the function of the small intestine?
Breaks down and absorbs protein, carb and fat thru villi into the bloodstream.
Which organs send liquids into the small intestine?
Pancreas and Gall Bladder
What is the function of the pancreas? List at least 2.
What is the function of the cecum.
protozoa and bacteria break down plant material and absorb it.
What happens in the reticulum?
Holds back large particles.
What ruminant organ is just like the monogastric stomach?
Abomasum
Name 3 of the functions of the monogastric stomach (abomasum).
HCl Acid breaks down Protein and liquifies food, churning and mucus protects against HCl Acid
List the organs in order in the monogastric.
Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach, SI an LI
List the order of the organs in a modified monogastric.
Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach, SI, Cecum, LI
List the order of the organs in a ruminant.
Mouth, Esophagus, Rumen, Reticulum, Omasum, Abomasum, SI, Cecum, LI
What ruminant organ is just like the large intestine?
Omasum
What feed can ruminants and modified monogastrics make good use of that monogastrics can't?
Plant Material