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Animal Nutrition 1
Vitamin and Mineral Deficieny Symptoms
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
06/27/2010

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Term
Vitamin A Chemical Names
Definition
retinol, retinal and retinoic acid
Term
Fat Soluble Vitamins
Definition
A,D,E, and K
Term
What Vitamin is most important for blood clotting
Definition
K
Term
Xeropthalmia
Definition
Vitamin A deficiency
Term
Tocopherols have what vitamin activity?
Definition
E
Term
1-25-dihydroxy cholecalciferol
Definition
Vitamin D
Term
Prevents Neural Tube Defects
Definition
Folic Acid
Term
What Vitamin Contains Cobalt?
Definition
B12
Term
d-alpha-tocopherol
Definition
Vitamin E
Term
Menadoine
Definition
Vitamin K
Term
Pantothenic acid deficiency leads to ____ in pigs
Definition
goose stepping
Term
Choline
Definition
Investigated to prevent spraddle leggedness in pigs and high doses increase litter size by 1/2 a pig.
Term
Avidin, from raw egg whites, interferes with what vitamin?
Definition
Biotin
Term
Biotin prevents ____
Definition
Skin Lesions
Term
This Vitamin acts like a hormone.
Definition
Vitamin D
Term
These three things prevent Rickets
Definition
Vitamin D, Ca, and P
Term
nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism is caused by a shortage of ...
Definition
Ca
Term
What two substances prevent perosis?
Definition
Choline and Mn
Term
This mineral is supplemented to prevent anemia
Definition
Iron (Fe)
Term
High levels of ____ can cause and antibiotic-like growth response.
Definition
Copper (Cu)
Term
Vitamin B12 contains what metal?
Definition
Cobalt (Co)
Term
Methionine contains this element, thus usually only found in protein.
Definition
Sulfur (S)
Term
This element prevents goiter
Definition
Iodine (I)
Term
Magnesium is supplemented to prevent what?
Definition
Grass Tetany
Term
This toxic element is present in raw rock phosphate
Definition
Fluorine (F)
Term
The difference between starch and cellulose is?
Definition
starch is made of glucose connected with ALPHA bonds and cellulose is made of glucose connected with BETA bonds.
Term
glucose + fructose = ?
Definition
sucrose
Term
glucose + galactose = ?
Definition
lactose
Term
glucose + glucose (disaccharides) = ?
Definition
Maltose
Term
Polysaccharide stored in animals in small amounts
Definition
glycogen
Term
Two forms of starch
Definition
Amylose - straight chains
Amylopectin - highly branched
Term
glucose based polysaccarides?
Definition
Starch and cellulose
Term
First limiting AA in corn for pigs?
Most abundant?
Definition
Lysine
Leucine
Term
Urea Cycle AA =
Definition
Arginine
Term
AA in aspertame?
Definition
Phenylalanine
Term
PKU test looks for what AA?
Definition
Phenylalanine
Term
Highly branched storage for of polysaccharide in animals =
Definition
glycogen
Term
stearic acid
Definition
Main long chain, saturated fatty acid stored in Beef
Term
Describe the following:
Glucose -
Lactose -
Sucrose -
Amylose -
Amylopectin -
Definition
blood sugar
milk sugar
table sugar
straight chain starch
branched chain starch
Term
high dielectric constant
Definition
Property of water that allows it t0 dissolve many nutrients
Term
What is the common feature of ribose, xylose, and arabinose
Definition
they are all pentoses
Term
What amino acid can replace up to 1/2 of the need for methionine
Definition
cystine (cys)
Term
Which amino acid has been connected with sleep, once was taken as a muscle building aid but has been banned for that purpose?
Definition
Tryptophan
Term
The baby chick requires two amino acids to grow
Definition
glycine, proline
Term
Waxy corn is different from standard feed corn in that....
Definition
starch is all in the amylopectin form
Term
Rumensin
Definition
Alters rumen fermentation, producing more propionic acid.
Term
diethylstilbesterol (DES)
Definition
synthetic hormone once used in beef cattle, now banned.
Term
Paylean (ractopamine)
Definition
Beta-adrenergic agonist, used in pigs to promote muscling.
Term
BST (bovine somatotropin)
Definition
Protein hormone, cleared for use in dairy cattle.
Term
Chlorotetracycline, Penicillin, Sulfamethazine
Definition
Antibiotics/Antimicrobial agents used for growth promotion in animals.
Term
Chlorotetracycline, Penicillin, Sulfamethazine
Definition
Antibiotics/Antimicrobial agents used for growth promotion in animals.
Term
Natural Isomer for Amino Acids
Definition
L isomer
Term
Natural Isomer of Sugars
Definition
D isomer
Term
AA with equally active D and L isomers.
Definition
methionine
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