Animal Nutrition

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  1. 3. organism has a simple single-chambered stomach, compared to a ruminant organism, which has a four-chambered complex stomach
  2. 6. is a small, calcified, whitish structure found in the mouth of many vertebrates and used to break down food.
  3. 7. the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller components that are more easily absorbed into a blood stream
  4. 9. an organic compound required by an organism as a vital nutrient in limited amounts
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  1. 1. Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements
  2. 2. living organisms of the kingdom Plantae including such multicellular groups as flowering plants, conifers, ferns and mosses
  3. 4. a mammal that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal's first compartment of the stomach
  4. 5. animals that depend on plant nutrition for their nutrients requirements
  5. 8. group of naturally occurring molecules that include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins
  6. 10. a muscular part of the digestion system which functions as an important organ of the digestive tract animals