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Animal Nutrition 1
Animal adaptations based on feeding and digestions
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
03/25/2015

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What does some of the best and known adaptations involving animals include?
Definition
Their feeding and digestion
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Where are the burmese pythons located?
Definition
The everglades
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What is special about the starfish?
Definition
Its stomach comes outside of its body to eat and its arms are really strong
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What are digestive systems of filter feeders like?
Definition
They have no true tissues, organs, gastrovascular cavity and true digestive system (alimentary canal)
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What happens during sumple intracellular digestion?
Definition
Food is taken up into food vacuoles where enzymatic and chemical digestion occurs
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What kind of feeding does a paramecium represent?
Definition
Simple intracellular digestion
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What does the sponge do to digest?
Definition
It brings in food particiles in the mucus, take them into the vacuoles, then send them through vacuole transportation
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What are the three types of extracellular digestion?
Definition

outside organism

gastrovascular cavities

alimentary canal

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What happens in extracellular digestion?
Definition
Digestive enzymes are secreted onto the food source, nutrient are absorbed
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What happens in the gastrovascular cavity:Hydra?
Definition

-extracellular digestion

-increased surfacea area

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What does increased surface area do during gastrovascular cavity:Hydra
Definition
Provides nutrient uptake
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What is a disadvantage of gastrovascular cavity?
Definition
It cannot eat continuously
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What is the alimentary canal?
Definition
"flow through eating"
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What are the 5 basic parts of the alimentary canal?
Definition

mouth

Mechanical digestion

storage

absorption

anus

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What is specific to the mamalian mouth?
Definition

Mechanical

enzymatic

salivary amylase

moistened and dissolving with saliva

peristaltic contraction to stomach

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What does amylase do?
Definition
It is an enzyme that digests starch
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What makes the mammalian stomach specialized?
Definition

muscular organ (1liter capacity)

esophageal sphincter,phyloric sphicter rugae (ridges)

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What are three digestive mechanisms that occur in mammalian stomachs?
Definition

mechanical

chemical

enzymatic

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What happens during protein digestion?
Definition
some absorptionof water, small molecules like ethanol and aspirin
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What happens during the chemical digestive mechanism?
Definition
it has a pH around 2 -breaks down food
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What breaks down protein during enzymatic digestive mechanism?
Definition
Pepsin (protease)
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What happens with absorption of digestive mechanisms?
Definition
low surface are, water, small molecules such as ethanol, aspirin
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Why doesn't pepsin digest stomach?
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The gastric gland create a constant flow of fluids that moves out to the middle of the stomach, mucus, and produces pepsinogen
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parietal cells create what?
Definition
HCl
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What do chief cells create?
Definition
pepsinogen (inactive)
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What two things mus pepsin need in order to be activated?
Definition

The chief cells (pepsunogen)

and 

Parietal cells (HCl)

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IClicker question: Infection of stomach mucosa by helicobacter pylori causes pariental cells to produce excess HCl this results in:

A)pepsinogen that is never activated

B)Stomach pH rise to pH 12

C)Self digestion and gastric ulcers

Definition
C) self digestion and gastric ulcers
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What happens in the small intestine?
Definition

Most of the enzymatic digestion occurs here

acid neutralized

starch, protein, lipids digested

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What is one of the hardest working tissues of the body?
Definition
Small intestine
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Where is the acidity from the stomach removed?
Definition
The small intestine
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How does the small intestine avoid digesting itself?
Definition
The pancreas secretes Trypsinogen, procarboxypeptidase, and chymotrypsin in their inactive form and once they are activated, turns into Trypsin, Carboxupeptidase, adn Chymotrypsin
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How are the inactive forms from the pancreas activate?
Definition
It uses an activating enzyme...Membrane-bound enteropetidase
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What does the membrane-bound enteropeptidase activate? and what happens after that?
Definition
It activates the Trypsin and the Trypsin activates the rest of them like a trigger effect, so that they can attack the protein molecule completely
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Where dos most nutrient absorption take place?
Definition
The small intestine
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What are villi?
Definition
a structure of the small intestine, what the ridges inside the small intestine are covered with
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Where is the epithelial cells located?
Definition
On the microvilli
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What are on the villi?
Definition
epithelial cells
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What is the major function of the Large intestine?
Definition
to reabsorb water
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What is another name for the large intestine?
Definition
colon
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What is the large intestine rich in?
Definition
symbiotic bacteria
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What does bacteria digest in the large intestine?
Definition
cellulose
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What do some symbiotic bacteria in the Large intestine produce?
Definition
vitamin K
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Describe the digestion in Paramecium
Definition
intracellular in vacuoles
digestive enzyme
low ph
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What is extracellular digestion?
Definition
the type found in digestive systems
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Describe the mechanical digestion of the stomach
Definition
churning of contents due to contraction and ridges on wall
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What are the three things trypsin activates?
Definition
Trypsinogen, procarboxypeptidase, chymotrypsinogen
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What is the surface area of the small intestine?
Definition
30 square meters
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What does the structure of the villi show?
Definition
that the epithelial cells with the microvilli that absorb the nutrients after digestion have capillaries right next to them to carry the nutrients to the rest of the body
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What is produced by the digestion of cellulose in the stomach?
Definition
methane and carbon dioxide gas
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What is the lease understood part of the digestive system?
Definition
The large intestine, there may be things that the bacteria in the human gut do that we don't understand verywell
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What is the main difference in the vertebrate digestive system of the coyote vs the koala?
Definition
the cecum
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