One of the biggest challenges that livestock producers and nutritionists face is understanding how we
can utilize available natural resources more ____________ to ensure adequate food supply produced
for world's population. - Answers Efficiently
________ is the fuel for all bodily processes - breathing, walking, eating, growth , lactation, and
reproduction. - Answers Energy
Indicate 2 factors that could affect the nutrient requirement of animals. - Answers - Environment
- Growth
Which of the following is a colon fermenter? - Answers Donkey
Which part of the chicken's GI tract functions as the true stomach and produces HCl? - Answers
Proventriculus
What part of the ruminant stomach functions as the true stomach and produces HCl? - Answers
Abomasum
Which of these are not in the proper sequence starting from the anterior end of the digestive tract:
duodenum - cecum - jejunum - ileum - colon? - Answers Cecum
___________ is the practice of reingesting material that has already been eliminated from the
digestive tract. - Answers Coprophagy
____________ in monogastric animals, the primary site in the GI tract for fat digestion. - Answers
Small Intestine
What are the 3 major types of microbial organisms are present: in the rumen? Indicate which is
present in the largest amounts. - Answers - Bacteria: largest
- Fungi
- Protozoa
The process by which digested nutrients cross the cellular lining (membranes) of the GI tract. -
Answers Absorption
Which of the following is the major site of roughage fermentation in the horse? - Answers Colon
True or False: Carbohydrates contain 2.25 times as much energy as proteins. - Answers False
True or False: To determine the digestibility of protein in a feedstuff fed to an animal, you must
measure the protein in the urine. - Answers False
True or False: As a general rule, mineral toxicity is much less of a problem than mineral deficiencies. -
Answers True
_______ is defined as converting complex feed nutrients into absorbable forms. - Answers Digestion
Which of the following is an advantage of ruminants? - Answers Synthesize microbial protein from
non protein nitrogen
Microbial fermentation in the rumen can generate quite a bit of gas production. What problem may
occur if the gas is not cructated? - Answers Bloat
Which of the following is the major site of roughage fermentation in the rabbit? - Answers Cecum
If a specific amino acid required to synthesize a protein is not available, the protein cannot be
synthesized. This is referred to as a ____________ amino acid. - Answers Limiting
There are 10 essential amino acids (EAA) for most mammals. List them (spell out). - Answers
Phenylalanine
Valine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Isoleucine
Methionine
Histidine
Arginine
Leucine
Lysine
There is one EAA is specifically required by cats. What is the amino acid that is essential for cats? -
Answers Taurine
The soft feces produced by the rabbit and mouse are also referred to as - Answers Cecotrophs
List the Fat Soluble vitamins . - Answers A, D, E, K
List 6 water soluble vitamins (abbreviations ok). - Answers B1, B2, B6, B12, C, niacin