ASC 378 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Nutrition - Answers - THe sum of the process in an animal by which food substances
are consumed, metabolized, and waste product eliminated
Nutrient - Answers - Any material that aids in the support if life in a normal healthy
animal
Feed and Feedstuff - Answers - Any product that when properly used in a diet has
nutritional value
Natural Feedstuff - Answers - corn, wheat, alfalfa, soybeans, potatoes
Natural Processed Feedstuff - Answers - soybean meal, wheat germ meal, alfalfa leaf
meal, distillers dried solubles
Synthetic Feedstuff - Answers - crystalline amino acids, vitamins
Any pure nutrient
6 classes of nurtients - Answers - carbohydrates
lipids
proteins
vitamins
minerals
water
Diet - Answers - A combination of feedstuff
Ration - Answers - Amount of feed consumed by (or provided to) an animal in a 24 hour
period
Supplements - Answers - A feed or feed mixture mixed with another feed or feed
mixture to improve the nutritional balance of a diet
3 way of using supplements - Answers - 1. Mix with other ingredients to form a complete
diet
2. Feed free choice
3. Feed undiluted
Concentrate - Answers - A feedstuff which supplies nutrients high in energy and
contains <18% fiber as crude protein
,Roughage - Answers - A feedstuff containing >18% fiber as crude fiber
Digestion - Answers - The physical and chemical reactions feedstuffs undergo from
intake to absorption from the gut
Absorption - Answers - Movement of nutrients from GI tract through gut wall into lymph
system, blood stream, and cells
Distribution - Answers - Movement of nutrients from absorption site to cells of body
Metabolism - Answers - The chemical process that nutrients undergo after absorbtion
Anabolism - Answers - Any constructive process by which simple substances are
converted into more complex substances
Catabolism - Answers - Any destructive process by which complex substances are
converted into more simple compounds
Enzymes - Answers - Biocatalysts, secreted by living cells, which activate and/or
accelerate chemical reactions
Cofactors - Answers - activate enzymes (many minerals)
Coenzymes - Answers - work with the enzymes but are not a permanent part; often act
as intermediate carriers for electrons or as functional groups for transport
Hormones - Answers - Chemical agents are synthesized by particular body parts of the
body which are then carried by the blood to other parts of the body where the elicit a
physiological response by action on specific tissues or organs
Order from feed to waste - Answers - 1. feed
2. digestion
3. absorption (as nutrients)
4. distribution
5. metabolism
6. production
7. waste
3000 BC - Answers - china prescribed source of iodine to treat goiter
601 BC - Answers - blindness due to vitamin a deficiency in donkeys
400 BC Hippocrates - Answers - Father of medicine
1747 Lind - Answers - Juice of citrus fruits was a cure for scurvy
, 1780 Antoine Lavoisier - Answers - father of nutrition
1791 Dr. George Fordyce - Answers - Calcium was needed to prevent eggs from
breaking
1810 Thaer - Answers - Developed first feeding standard; feeds were assigned a 'hay
value'
1833 William Beaumont - Answers - outstanding pioneer in the study of gastric digestion
in man
1834 William Prout - Answers - Three great proximate principles which met an animal's
needs in addition to minerals: (1) saccharine (CHO); (2) oily (lipid); (3) albuminous
(protein)
1840 Charles Chossate - Answers - wheat and water diet must be supplemented with
calcium for bone growth
1842 Juston von Liebig - Answers - published animal chemistry in its application to
physiology
1843 Lawes and Gilbert - Answers - Began Rothamsted experiment station in England
1860 Henneberg and Stohman - Answers - developed proximate analysis to evaluate
feedstuffs for nonruminant livestock
1884 Tappeiner - Answers - GI enzymes do not break down fiber consumed by rumens
1897 Eijkman - Answers - Relationship between rice polishings and beriberi
(polyneuritis) in hens
1922 - Answers - role of vitamin D in rickets defined
1925 - Answers - Essential trace minerals discovered
1930 Rose - Answers - classified amino acids as essential and nonessestial
1934 - Answers - Ca:P ratio established
Key components of big/fat aniamls - Answers - lower H2O present
Lower protein
Higher Fat
lower ash
key components of thin/small aniamls - Answers - higher H2O present
Higher protein
ANSWERS
Nutrition - Answers - THe sum of the process in an animal by which food substances
are consumed, metabolized, and waste product eliminated
Nutrient - Answers - Any material that aids in the support if life in a normal healthy
animal
Feed and Feedstuff - Answers - Any product that when properly used in a diet has
nutritional value
Natural Feedstuff - Answers - corn, wheat, alfalfa, soybeans, potatoes
Natural Processed Feedstuff - Answers - soybean meal, wheat germ meal, alfalfa leaf
meal, distillers dried solubles
Synthetic Feedstuff - Answers - crystalline amino acids, vitamins
Any pure nutrient
6 classes of nurtients - Answers - carbohydrates
lipids
proteins
vitamins
minerals
water
Diet - Answers - A combination of feedstuff
Ration - Answers - Amount of feed consumed by (or provided to) an animal in a 24 hour
period
Supplements - Answers - A feed or feed mixture mixed with another feed or feed
mixture to improve the nutritional balance of a diet
3 way of using supplements - Answers - 1. Mix with other ingredients to form a complete
diet
2. Feed free choice
3. Feed undiluted
Concentrate - Answers - A feedstuff which supplies nutrients high in energy and
contains <18% fiber as crude protein
,Roughage - Answers - A feedstuff containing >18% fiber as crude fiber
Digestion - Answers - The physical and chemical reactions feedstuffs undergo from
intake to absorption from the gut
Absorption - Answers - Movement of nutrients from GI tract through gut wall into lymph
system, blood stream, and cells
Distribution - Answers - Movement of nutrients from absorption site to cells of body
Metabolism - Answers - The chemical process that nutrients undergo after absorbtion
Anabolism - Answers - Any constructive process by which simple substances are
converted into more complex substances
Catabolism - Answers - Any destructive process by which complex substances are
converted into more simple compounds
Enzymes - Answers - Biocatalysts, secreted by living cells, which activate and/or
accelerate chemical reactions
Cofactors - Answers - activate enzymes (many minerals)
Coenzymes - Answers - work with the enzymes but are not a permanent part; often act
as intermediate carriers for electrons or as functional groups for transport
Hormones - Answers - Chemical agents are synthesized by particular body parts of the
body which are then carried by the blood to other parts of the body where the elicit a
physiological response by action on specific tissues or organs
Order from feed to waste - Answers - 1. feed
2. digestion
3. absorption (as nutrients)
4. distribution
5. metabolism
6. production
7. waste
3000 BC - Answers - china prescribed source of iodine to treat goiter
601 BC - Answers - blindness due to vitamin a deficiency in donkeys
400 BC Hippocrates - Answers - Father of medicine
1747 Lind - Answers - Juice of citrus fruits was a cure for scurvy
, 1780 Antoine Lavoisier - Answers - father of nutrition
1791 Dr. George Fordyce - Answers - Calcium was needed to prevent eggs from
breaking
1810 Thaer - Answers - Developed first feeding standard; feeds were assigned a 'hay
value'
1833 William Beaumont - Answers - outstanding pioneer in the study of gastric digestion
in man
1834 William Prout - Answers - Three great proximate principles which met an animal's
needs in addition to minerals: (1) saccharine (CHO); (2) oily (lipid); (3) albuminous
(protein)
1840 Charles Chossate - Answers - wheat and water diet must be supplemented with
calcium for bone growth
1842 Juston von Liebig - Answers - published animal chemistry in its application to
physiology
1843 Lawes and Gilbert - Answers - Began Rothamsted experiment station in England
1860 Henneberg and Stohman - Answers - developed proximate analysis to evaluate
feedstuffs for nonruminant livestock
1884 Tappeiner - Answers - GI enzymes do not break down fiber consumed by rumens
1897 Eijkman - Answers - Relationship between rice polishings and beriberi
(polyneuritis) in hens
1922 - Answers - role of vitamin D in rickets defined
1925 - Answers - Essential trace minerals discovered
1930 Rose - Answers - classified amino acids as essential and nonessestial
1934 - Answers - Ca:P ratio established
Key components of big/fat aniamls - Answers - lower H2O present
Lower protein
Higher Fat
lower ash
key components of thin/small aniamls - Answers - higher H2O present
Higher protein
