Poultry Biology ( Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive Systems

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Across
  1. 5. Acts as water repellent
  2. 7. Main function is water resorption to increase water content of cells and maintain water balance in the bird.
  3. 9. simple sugars
  4. 10. Found in the heart. Involuntary. Needs no outside stimulus for contraction.
  5. 12. Responsible for voluntary movements Constitutes most of the muscle mass of the body.
  6. 14. Connect the skeletal system to the respiratory system
  7. 17. located within the loop of the duodenum
  8. 20. monoglycerides and fatty acids
  9. 21. Extra pair of bones that birds have and mammals do not have
  10. 23. predominates in ‘white meat’
  11. 25. Bulbous area at end of digestive tract, Common chamber for the digestive, reproductive and urinary tract discharges.
  12. 26. Glands Saliva serves to lubricate foods
  13. 27. largest organ in the body
  14. 29. predominates in ‘dark meat’
  15. 30. No lips, teeth, soft palate or cheek, therefore no chewing
Down
  1. 1. Primary organ of digestion and absorption. Made up of duodenum and lower small intestines.
  2. 2. breaks down starch and glycogen
  3. 3. Lines various organs and tissues of the body including blood vessels, intestines and other organs.
  4. 4. Fibers possessing characteristics of both red and white fibers.
  5. 6. Also known as the gullet
  6. 8. An outer protective covering formed by the skin and feathers
  7. 11. Secretes gastric juices e.g., HCl and the enzyme pepsin which aids in
  8. 13. Derived from reptiles from which the birds evolved
  9. 15. amino acids
  10. 16. The external opening of the cloaca where waste products and other substances leave the body.
  11. 18. Composed of type of protein called keratin]
  12. 19. muscular stomach, Grinds and mixes the feed.
  13. 22. Two blind pouches found at the junction of the small and large intestines
  14. 24. produced in the liver stored in the gall bladder
  15. 25. Forms from an out-pouching of the esophagus Mostly a storage organ.
  16. 28. Glandular stomach, also called the true stomach