Vocab
The sum of all processes by which an
organism takes in and assimilates food,
including digestion and absorption for,
maintenance, promoting growth, and
reproduction.
What is Nutrition?
Animal lacking an essential nutrient
What is Deficient?
To break down
What is Catabolism?
ADG
What is Average Daily Gain?
Portion of food nutrients which support bodily processes which go on regardless of new tissue development or products formed.
What is Maintenance?
Any chemical element or compound in the diet that supports normal maintenance of life processes, reproduction, growth, or lactation.
What is a Nutrient?
Animal having too much of an essential nutrient
What is Toxic?
To build-up
Has at least one double bond
What is Unsaturated Fat?
Contain Nitrogen and made up of Amino Acids
What is Protein?
Preparation of food or feed for absorption.(Chemical, Mechanical, Microbial)
What is Digestion?
Grows/matures slowest in animals
Increase in cell number(fat)
What is Hyperplasia?
The most abundant carbohydrate
Insoluble in water, used for energy(2.25x more energy than carbs)
What is Lipids?
Passage of food or nutrients from the gastrointestinal (GI) traction into the blood stream and its distribution.
What is Absorption?
Grows/Matures quickest after bone
What is Muscle?
Sum of all biochemical processes that nutrients
undergo to furnish energy and build new tissues.
What is Metabolism?
Most essential nutrient
What is Water?
Fat Soluble Vitamins
What is Vitamins A, D, E, K?
The process of getting food into the mouth
What is Prehesion?
Develops before muscle and fat
What is bone?
Breaks down starches and sugars
What is Salivary Amylase?
3 types of salivary glands
What are the Parotid, Submaxillary, and the Sublingual?
Acts as the teeth in the Avian Species and makes particle size smaller.
What is the Gizzard?