Animal nutrition notes

Dentition is the type, number and arrangement of an animal’s teeth. Teeth start mechanical digestion by cutting, tearing or grinding food so that later chemical digestion can work on a larger…

The human digestive system breaks complex food into simple soluble forms the body can use. It has two parts: the alimentary canal: a continuous tube from mouth to anus accessory organs, e.g. liver…

After digestion, nutrients must enter the blood or lymph, be built into cells, and undigested waste must leave. This section is absorption, assimilation and egestion only, not dentition and not the…

Blood glucose must stay within a workable band so cells can respire and do not dehydrate. This section is homeostasis of blood sugar by insulin and glucagon, plus diabetes mellitus. Use the pattern…