ANS 319 Nutrition @ Iowa State with
Baumgard 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Answers | A+ Score Assured
Ingestion?
Digestion?
Absorption?
Elimination? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ingestion: act of eating
Digestion: process of breaking down food into molecules small enough for
body to absorb
Absorption: taking up small molecules from the digestive compartment
Elimination: undigested material passes out of the digestive compartment
Why do we use everything on a dry matter basis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cost
and nutritive value
What process can cause cavities, bad breath, flatulence, beer making,
body odor, etcetera? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Fermentation
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, Explain the process of fermentation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Microorganisms +
glucose = VFA + CO2
What are the three structural carbohydrates? Which is completely
indigestible to all organisms except fungi? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cellulose,
hemicellulose, and lignin (indigestible)
List three highly digestible components inside a plant cell wall - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Protein, sugar, starch, fat
Lignin in latin translates to... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Wood
T/F: As plants mature, they gain more valuable digestible proteins, energy,
vitamins, and minerals? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔F: As plants mature, they gain
more fiber/lignin as they thicken and become less digestible.
T/F: During a drought, plants will become less digestible as they increase
fiber production to retain water? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔T
Name the four classes of plant feeds and give an example of each -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Forages: grasses, legumes
Grains: seeds of cereals, linseed plants
Roots: turnips, beets
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Baumgard 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Answers | A+ Score Assured
Ingestion?
Digestion?
Absorption?
Elimination? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ingestion: act of eating
Digestion: process of breaking down food into molecules small enough for
body to absorb
Absorption: taking up small molecules from the digestive compartment
Elimination: undigested material passes out of the digestive compartment
Why do we use everything on a dry matter basis? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cost
and nutritive value
What process can cause cavities, bad breath, flatulence, beer making,
body odor, etcetera? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Fermentation
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Explain the process of fermentation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Microorganisms +
glucose = VFA + CO2
What are the three structural carbohydrates? Which is completely
indigestible to all organisms except fungi? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cellulose,
hemicellulose, and lignin (indigestible)
List three highly digestible components inside a plant cell wall - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Protein, sugar, starch, fat
Lignin in latin translates to... - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Wood
T/F: As plants mature, they gain more valuable digestible proteins, energy,
vitamins, and minerals? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔F: As plants mature, they gain
more fiber/lignin as they thicken and become less digestible.
T/F: During a drought, plants will become less digestible as they increase
fiber production to retain water? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔T
Name the four classes of plant feeds and give an example of each -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Forages: grasses, legumes
Grains: seeds of cereals, linseed plants
Roots: turnips, beets
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
