Basic Nutrition Vocabulary test

What is the definition of nutrition in the context of livestock?

• The process of photosynthesis in plants

• Interrelated steps involved in assimilating food by the animal for use in tissue repair, growth, and normal function

• The breakdown of food in the human digestive system

• The process of converting sunlight into energy

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What is a nutrient?

• A type of animal feed

• A chemical compound required by the animal for productive purposes

• A type of plant

• A method of food preservation

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What are feedstuffs?

• Nutrients consumed in breads, vegetables, and meats

• Grains and by-products used by animals

• Associated with human food

• A type of animal diet

What is the difference between monogastrics and ruminants?

• Monogastrics have a multi-compartmented stomach; ruminants have a simple stomach

• Monogastrics have a simple stomach; ruminants have a multi-compartmented stomach

• Both have the same type of stomach

• Monogastrics are only found in birds

Nutrients consumed in breads, vegetables and or meats

• Ruminants

• Monogastric

• Diet

• Food

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Grains and by-products used by animals

• Feed

• Diet

• Ration

• Ruminants

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Mixture of feedstuffs available for the animal to provide the Nutrients

• Feedstuffs

• Diet

• Monogastric

• Ration

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Associated with Human food

• Feedstuffs

• Diet

• Foodstuffs

• Nutrition

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Total amount of material an animal would be consuming in one day

• Foodstuffs

• Feedstuffs

• Golden Corral

• Ration

Simple stomach; humans, pigs and horses

• Monogastrics

• Ruminants

• Diet

• Ration

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