ANSC 303 Lecture Notes - List Of Muppets, Motilin, Ween
11 Feb 2014
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Why do animals digest feed: food not ingested in a suitable state. Needs to be crushed, enzymatically broken etc: physical nature of feed determines. Huge if you work at a zoo - have to mimic whats in nature. Type of digestive system required for digestion: happy healthy animal is more effective to the producer. Main difference between species: digestion (most basic function) Taking a unit and making it small enough to pass the wall of the gut, big structure to small. Moving that small piece that was digested from the gut to the blood, crossing single cell layer: absorption, protective barrier, why we can consume semi sketch food. Germs are everywhere but its how many we consume that makes the difference: we interact with the things in our gut without knowing it. If its big its important!: arrangement of organs. When we first see differences between monogastric vs a ruminant. 90% of digestion occurs in small intestine, similar among species.
