VET-1501 Animal Nutrition Final Exam
Study Guide
Q&A 2023 Update
The main function of the gall bladder in digestion is? - Correct Answer-Storage of bile
The primary function of the large intestine? - Correct Answer-Elimination of waste
Trypsin degrades polypeptides into what product? - Correct Answer-Oligopeptides
Pepsin degradration of protein results in what metabolic product? - Correct Answer-
polypeptides
The digestion of which nutrient actually begins in the stomach? - Correct Answer-
Protein
Influx of food and breakdown of protein into peptides in the stomach increases the ph
and results in? - Correct Answer-G cells producing gastrin
Triglycerides are broken down into fatty acids, monoglycerides and glycerol by which
enzyme? - Correct Answer-lipase
Gastrin stimulates parietal and chief cells to produce? - Correct Answer-Hydrochloric
acid (HCl), pepsinogen
The most digestion of nutrients occurs within which section of small intestine? - Correct
Answer-Duodenum
Prehension of plant foods by ruminants utilizes? - Correct Answer-Tongue to wrap
around plants and pull into mouth
Herbivores can utilize plant foodstuffs that carnivores cannot because? - Correct
Answer-Microbial populations ferment plant carbohydrate and produce volatile fatty
acids
Mastication of plant foods and mechanical digestion is facilitated in ruminants by? -
Correct Answer-Gallons of saliva produced to buffer rumen
The primary function of the reticulum and omasum is? - Correct Answer-Resorption of
water and filtering of large feed materials back into rumen
The fourth forestomach is? - Correct Answer-Abomasum
