Carb Loading
This monosaccharide is the primary energy source used by the body for metabolic processes.
What is glucose?
The prefix in triglycerides tells this many fatty acids are attached to glycerol.
What is three?
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
These two species groups require dietary vitamin C.
What are guinea pigs and primates/nonhuman primates?
The chapter says laboratory-animal diet should be considered this type of research variable.
What is a controllable experimental variable?
These are the two monosaccharides that form lactose.
What is glucose & galactose?
These two essential fatty acids are the "Two L's".
What are linoleic and linolenic acid?
This is the most abundant protein in mammals, about one-third of total protein content.
What is collagen?
These two obligate carnivores require taurine in their diets.
What are cats and ferrets?
This formulation keeps ingredient inclusion levels fixed.
What is fixed formulation?
This polysaccharide stores energy in animals.
What is glycogen?
This complex allows insoluble cholesterol and triglycerides to travel in blood.
What is a lipoprotein?
These proteins act as biological catalysts.
What are enzymes?
The chapter gives this maintenance fiber range for rabbits.
What is 18-25%?
This formulation permits small ingredient changes to maintain nutrient levels.
What is managed formulation?
These carbohydrate containing compounds contribute to cell-to-cell communication and immune self-recognition.
What are glycoproteins or glycolipids?
Cloudy plasma shortly after a fatty meal is called this.
What is lipemia?
Name the seven protein categories listed in the chapter.
What are structural, enzymes, regulatory, transport, hormones, protective, and toxins?
Name the four cecal-digester examples listed.
What are horses, swine, rabbits, and rodents?
This feed component can create nonspecific fluorescence in imaging studies.
What is chlorophyll?
Put these in increasing size: polysaccharide, disaccharide, monosaccharide + oligosaccharide.
What is monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharide and polysaccharides?
Name the source difference for lipase described for pigs/dogs/rabbits versus rats/mice.
What is gastric lipase from the stomach in pigs/dogs/rabbits versus tongue-gland lipase in rats/mice?
Name the four digestive enzymes emphasized in the protein breakdown sequence after/beginning with stomach digestion.
What are pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase?
This behavior lets rabbits recover nutrients after late-GI fermentation.
What is coprophagy?
These soy-associated compounds can mimic estrogen and interfere with estrogen-sensitive research.
What are isoflavones/phytoestrogens?