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My Animal Science Words

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Nutrient   Any food component the body requires to support life includes life including water, carbohydrates, protein, fats, minerals and vitamins  
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Malnutrition   Abnormal nutrition; caused by a diet that contains too much or too little of one or more essential nutrients  
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Mouth   Teeth grasps, tear and grind food into small pieces, tongue position food for swallowing  
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Esophagus   Transport food from mouth to stomach  
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Stomach   Provides food storage  
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Stomach Intestine   Mixes ingested foods with bile and digestive enzymes  
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Large Intestine   Absorbs water and electrolytes, recycling them for use within the body.  
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Rectum   External openings at the end of digestive tract.  
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Salivary Glands   Secrete saliva to moisten and lubricate foods play role in evaporative cooling in dogs and cats  
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Liver   Produces bile to help digest foods. Stores glucose as glycogen.  
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Pancreas   Produces insulin and gluagon to help control glugagon metabolism  
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Energy   ability to do work; all body activities requires energy and all needs are meet by consuming food; which consuming food, which contains in chemical form, energy content of food is expressed kilo calories  
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Metabolism   all of the complex, integrated chemical and physical processes that makes life possible.  
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Digestibility   proportion of nutrients in food available for absorption from the gastrointestinal tract  
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Bioavailability   amount of nutrient absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract in a form that the body can use.  
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As Fed Basics   Concentration of nutrients in food in the form consumed by the animal; includes moisture content of the food  
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Dry Method Basics   method of expressing a food nutrient content on a moisture free basics  
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Energy Basis   concentration of nutrients in food expressed per unit of energy usually per 100 kilocalories.  
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Metabolizable Energy   Amount of energy in a food available for the body use measured in calories or kilocalories  
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Kilocalories   1000 calories; one calorie is the energy needed to raise temperature of 1g water from 14.5 to 15.5  
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Solvant   liquid in which another substance is dissolved to form a solution.  
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Hydrolysis   process by which complex materials are broken down into simpler ones by adding water; one of the most basic and prevent life processes  
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Maintenance   the amount and quaility of the diet required to maintain an adult animal without providing additional nutrients for production, reproduction and weight gain  
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Gross energy   total amount of potential energy in food, not completely used by the animal because some energy loses occurs during digestion and expelled from urine and feces  
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Body Condition Score   Determination of an relative proportion of muscle to fat using visual assessment and palpation  
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Lean Body Mass   Fat Free mass of the body; that part of the body including its components except fats  
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Energy Density   Number of calories provided by a given weight or volume of pet food  
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Enzymes   Any protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body acting as a catalyst  
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Digestion   act or process of converting food into chemical compounds that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and used by the blood tissues  
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Digest   physical or enzymatic breakdown of food into simpler compounds that can be absorbed and incorporated by the body  
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Monaccharides   simple surgars  
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Metabolism   all the complex; interrelated chemicals and physical processes that makes life possible; includes anabolism, the process by which organic substances are build and maintained  
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Nonessential Amino Acids   amino acids synthesized in the body body in sufficient amounts so that they do not need to be obtained from food.  
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Glycoproteins   proteins joined to carbohydrates; function as cell membrane bound enzymes and receptors  
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Glycolipids   lipids that contains carbohydrates groups such as galactose and glucose  
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Lactase   Encyme in the intestine mucosa that spits lactose into glucose and galactose  
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Essential Diatary Nutrients   Nutrients that the body cannot synthesize at a sufficient rate to meet body needs and must be supplied by the diet  
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Metabolically Essential   required by the body for normal function  
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Glucconeogenesis   Production of glucose from amino acids and glycerol; occurs in the liver  
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Dipeptides   compounds consisting of amino acids connected by a peptide bond  
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Tripepties   compounds containing three amino acids linked by peptite bonds  
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enterocytes   primary cells of the small intestinal mucosa responsible for final digestion and absorption of nutrients, electrolytes and water  
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Villi   finger like protection on the surface of the small intestine that increase the surface of the small intestine the surface area available for absorption of fluids and nutrients  
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Calayze   To modify, especially to increase, the rate of a chemical reaction  
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Antibodies   proteins produced by transformed B lymphocytes(Plasma Cells) in response to the presence of an antigen  
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Pathogens   disease- causing agent such as bacteria, viruses or fungi.  
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Satiety   Condition of feeling fuel to the point of satisfaction and unable to ingest more foods  
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Metabolize   to be transformed by metabolism  
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Urea   one of the final products of protein metabolism  
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Catabolism   any destructive process by which cells convert complex substances into simple compounds resulting in realease of energy  
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Myelin Shealth   Schwann cells wrapped around an axon of nerve cell that serves as insulation; increases speed of nerve impulse movement  
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prostaglandins   hormone-like substances, derived from fatty acids via the cyclooxygenase pathways, that mediate many different physiologic functions, including inflammation, metabolism and smooth muscle activity  
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Leukotrienes   substances formed from arachidonic acids that participate in inflammation.  
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Bile Acids   Molecules secreted by the liver into small intestines where they combine into facts and fatty acids to make the fats more water soluble and active digesting enzymes  
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Soluble Fiber   fiber deprived from food that forms a viscous solution in water because of it substantial water- holding captivity; easily degraded of the large intestine  
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enterocytes   primary cells of the small intestinal mucosa responsible for final digestion and absorption of nutrients and electrolytes and water  
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encephalopathy   any degenerative disease of the brain  
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lipids   compounds, including fats, oils, waxes, sterols and triglycerides, that are insoluble in water; important structural components of cell membranes  
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fatty acids   Organic compounds consisting of a carbon and hydrogen chain with a carboxyl group (–COOH) on one end and a methyl group (–CH3) on the other end; naturally occurring component of all fats  
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triglycerides   compounds consisting of three bonds to glycerol; the usual storage from lipids from animals  
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cholesterol   complex organic molecule (steroid alcohol) found in animal fats and oils, bile, blood, brain tissue, milk, egg yolk, myelin sheaths of nerve fibers, liver, kidneys and adrenal glands; necessary component of all cell membranes; can be synthesized in the bo  
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fat-soluble vitamins   vitamins that are soluble in and absorbed from the intestine in fat; includes vitamins A, D, E and K  
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prostaglandins   hormone-like substances, derived from fatty acids via the cyclooxygenase pathways, that mediate many different physiologic functions, including inflammation, metabolism and smooth muscle activity  
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leukotrienes   substances formed from arachidonic acid that participate in inflammation  
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bile acids   molecules secreted by the liver into the small intestine where they combine with fats and fatty acids to make the fats more water-soluble and activate fat-digesting enzymes (lipases)  
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phospholipids   triglycerides in which phosphorus replaces one fatty acid; major lipids in cell membranes  
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palatability   acceptable to the taste; describes willingness of animals to eat the food in preference to others, based on factors including taste, smell, appearance and texture  
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essential fatty acids   fatty acids that cannot be made by the body and must be supplied by the diet  
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leukotrienes   substances formed from arachidonic acid that participate in inflammation  
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adipose   fat  
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epidermal   referring to the outermost layer of skin  
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pyoderma   any pus-producing skin condition  
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inorganic   referring to compounds that do not contain hydrogen and carbon  
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enzymes   any protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body by acting as a catalyst  
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Diet   daily supply of food and water to meet an animal's nutrient and energy requirements  
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incombustible   incapable of being burned  
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coenzymes   organic molecules, often derived from vitamins (e.g., riboflavin [B2], niacin [B3], pantothenic acid [B5], pyridoxine [B6]) that are required by an enzyme to carry out a metabolic reaction  
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homeostasis   state of chemical equilibrium maintained in the body by feedback and regulatory processes in response to internal and external changes; helps maintain normal body structure, function and health  
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)   genetic material of a living organism found within cell nucleus  
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transduction   conversion of a stimulus, whether mechanical, chemical or thermal, into an electrical impulse  
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free radical   naturally occurring molecule in the body as a result of metabolic processes; contains an odd number of electrons that is highly reactive with other molecules and may cause cellular damage  
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metabolism   all of the complex, interrelated chemical and physical processes that make life possible; includes anabolism, the process by which organic substances are built and maintained, and catabolism, the process by which large molecules are broken into smaller mo  
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polyuria   excretion of a large volume of pale, dilute urine in a period of time  
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