Vocabulary
The yellow fluid secretion that helps breakdown food for digestion and absorption of the food
What is bile?
The type of stomach monogastrics have.
What is a single chambered stomach?
Ruminants have multi chambered stomachs...how many compartments
What is four?
The difference between a monogastric digestive system
What is an enlarged cecum?
They have process food differently because they lack this
What are teeth?
The breaking down of food particles into nutrients to be used by the body to allow an animal to live
What is digestion?
This animal has a monogastric digestive system
What is a pig?
Three animals that have a ruminant digestive system
What are cattle, sheep, and goats?
Two examples of animals that are hindgut fermenters
What are horses and rabbits?
An example animal of this type of digestive system
What are birds?
A digestive system that has a stomach with four sections or compartments
What is a ruminant?
Monogastric animals cannot easily digest this
What is fiber?
Their ability to ferment plant material allows them to thrive on
What is pasture?
In the cecum, a large fermentation chamber, ____________ break down fiber.
What are microbes?
The names of the two part stomach
What is the proventriculus and gizzard?
Animals that eat both plant and meat based food sources
What is an omnivore?
The main site for digestion and nutrient absorption, with help from the pancreas (enzymes) and liver (bile for fat digestion).
What is the small intestine?
The name of the four compartments of ruminants
What is the Rumen, Reticulum, Abomasum and Omasum?
Where nutrients are absorbed the most
What is the small intestine?
This allows birds to eat quickly and digest food later
What is the crop?
The thin connective tissue that lines the intestinal tract
What is mucosa?
Monogastrics use this to grind their food
What are teeth?
The speed at which ruminants digest fiber
What is slow?
They need this amount of fiber and easily digestible nutrients.
What is a balance?
Muscle grinding occurs here
What is the gizzard?