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Animal Anatomy&Phsy2
Animal Anatomy, Physiology, and Nutrition Terms
Question | Answer |
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Maltose | Compound milk sugar. |
Lactose | Compound milk sugar. |
Starch | Major energy source in livestock feeds. |
Cellulose | Woody fiber parts that make up plant cell walls. |
Fat | Nutrients that have 2.25 times as much energy as carbohydrates. |
Supplement | Extra nutrient added to animal feed. |
Synthetic nutrients | Nutrients manufactured chemically. |
Oil meal | By-product of the production of vegetable oil. |
Urea | Synthetic source of nitrogen made from air, water, and carbon. |
Feed additive | A nonnutritive substance added to feed to improve growth, increase feed efficiency, or to maintain health. |
antibiotics | Substance used to help prevent or control certain diseases of animals. |
Dry matter | Material left after all water is removed from a feed material. |
TDN | Total Digestible Nutrients; the measure of digestibility of feed. |
By-product | A secondary product left from the production of a primary commodity. |
Hay | Forages that have been cut and dried to a low level of moisture,used for animal feed. |
Legume | Plant in which certain nitrogen-fixing bacteria utilize nitrogen gas from the air and convert is to nitrates that the plant can use for food. |
Green roughages | Plant materials with high moisture content such as pastures and root plants. |
silage | Feed resulting from the storage and fermentation of green crops in the absence of air. |