ANSC 303 Exam 2 - TAMU

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What does hydrolized mean?
Break down
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What percentage of blood goes through the liver?
98%
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Why is GLUT5 not listed as insulin independent or dependent?
Because it is not responsible for bringing glucose into the blood
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Who produces the most propionate?
Cows > Horses > Pigs
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Why does glucagon decrease protein synthesis?
Because amino acids are used in gluceogenesis instead
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Which carbohydrate is not hydrolized by mammalian enzymes?
Structural
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Which carbohydrate is hydrolized by only microbial enzymes?
Structural
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What is the most common type of structural carbohydrate?
Cellulose
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What is cellulose made up of?
Glucose
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What is a food example of cellulose?
Hay or grass
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What are structural carbohydrates also known as?
Fiber
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What are nonstructural carbohydrates also known as?
Starches and sugars
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What carbohydrate can be hydrolized by both mammalian and microbial enzymes?
Nonstructural
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What is the most common nonstructural carbohydrate?
Starch
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What is a food example of starch?
Corn
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What is corn made up of?
Glucose
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What makes up carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides
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What are the types of monosaccharides?
Glucose, galactose, and fructose
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How many sugar molecules are in a monosaccharide?
One
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What can absorb monosaccharides?
Enterocytes
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What can ferment monosaccharides?
Microbes
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What are disaccharides?
2 sugar molecules linked together by a glycosidic bond
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What links together sugar molecules to make polysaccharides?
Glycosidic bonds
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What type of enzymes can digest lactose?
Mammalian and microbial enzymes
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What two monosaccharides make up lactose?
Glucose and galactose
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What types of enzymes can hydrolize glucose?
ME and BE
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What types of enzymes can hydrolize galactose?
ME and BE
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What type of enzymes can hydrolize fructose?
ME and BE
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What type of enzymes can hydrolize lactose?
ME and BE
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What type of enzymes can hydrolize sucrose?
ME and BE
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What types of enzymes can hydrolize maltose?
ME and BE
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What types of enzymes can hydrolize cellobiose?
ME and BE
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What is a heteropolymer?
A polymer made up of various molecules or units
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What monomers is starch made up of?
Glucoses
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What monomers is cellulose made up of?
Glucoses
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How do you turn a polysaccharide back into a monosaccharide?
Must break the glycosidic bond between the sugar molecules
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What types of enzymes can digest sucrose?
Mammalian and microbial enzymes
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What types of enzymes can digest maltose?
Mammalian and microbial enzymes
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What enzymes can digest cellobiose?
Microbial enzymes only
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What is a food example of lactose?
Sugar milk
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What is a food example of sucrose?
Table sugar
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What monosaccharides make up sucrose?
Glucose and fructose
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What is a product of starch digestion?
Maltose
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What monosaccharides make up maltose?
Glucose and glucose
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What is a product of cellulose digestion?
Cellobiose
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What monosaccharides make up cellobiose?
Glucose and glucose
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What types of glycosidic bonds are in starch?
Alpha glycosidic
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What is a homopolymer?
A polymer made up of chains of the same type of monomer
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What type of polymer is starch?
A homopolymer
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What is a function of starch?
Storage polysaccharides
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What type of polymer is cellulose?
A homopolymer
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What type of glycosidic bonds make up cellulose?
Beta glycosidic bonds
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What is the function of cellulose?
Structural polysaccharide
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What is lignin?
NOT A CARBOHYDRATE - part of the plant's cell wall and is associated with cellulose
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What happens to digestibility as lignin concentration is increased?
Digestibility (of cellulose) with derease
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How do you calculate digestbility?
(intake - feces)/intake x 100
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What is 100% indigestible?
Lignin
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What are the types of starch?
Amylose and amylopectin
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What is the structural build of amylose?
Alpha 1,4 linkages, chains of glucose, and about 100 glucose molecules
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What is the structural build of amylopectin?
Alpha 1.4 and 1,6 linkages, 1.6 branch points, about 1,000 to 10,000 glucose molecules - structurally similar to glycogen
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What bonds make up maltose?
Alpha 1,4 glycocidic
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What bonds make up cellobiose?
Beta 1,4 glycosidic
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Where does mammalian digestion of nonstructural carbohydrates take place?
The small intestine
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What type of enzymes can hydrolize the alpha 1,4 glycosidic bond?
Mammalian and microbial
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What enzymes can hydrolize the beta 1,4 glycosidic bonds?
Microbial enzymes
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What glycosidic bond makes up maltose?
Alpha 1,4
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What glycosidic bond makes up cellobiose?
Beta 1,4
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What can salivary amylase hydrolize?
Alpha 1,4 glycosidic bonds
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What does the decreased pH in the stomach do to salivary amylase?
Deactivates it
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Where does nearly all of mammalian NCHO digestion occur?
The small intestine
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Where is all of glucose, fructose, and galactose absorption occur?
The small intestine
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What does pancreatic amylase hydrolize?
Alpha 1,4 glycosidic bonds
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What are brush border enzymes?
Enzymes produced by the enterocytes themselves
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What is hemicellulose?
A heteropolymer structural carbohydrate made up of glucose, xylose, mannose, arabinose, etc.
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What can hemicellulose be hydrolized by?
BE
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What is pectin?
A heteropoylmer structural carbohydrate (fiber) made up of arabinose and galactose
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What can pectin be hydrolized by?
BE
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What is lignin a part of?
The cell wall
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What does an increased amount of lignin cause?
A decrease in cellulose digestion
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What are the brush border enzymes?
Maltase, isomaltase, glucoamylase, lactase, sucrase, and phlorizin hydrolase
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How many nonruminant brush border enzymes are there?
6
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What type of enzymes are brush border enzymes?
ME
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What is maltase?
An enzyme that hydrolizes maltose into 2 glucose or maltotriose into 3 glucose
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What produces maltase?
ME as a brush border enzyme and by amylolytic bacteria (BE)
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What does maltose produce when it is hydrolized?
2 glucose molecules
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What does maltotriose produce when it is hydrolized?
3 glucose molecules
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What must be present for pancreatic alpha amylase to be active?
At least 5 glucose molecules
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What are the products pancreatic alpha amylase creates?
Maltose, maltotriose, and isomaltose
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What is isomaltase?
An enzyme that hydrolizes isomaltose into 2 glucose molecules or maltotriose into 3 glucose molecules
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What enzymes produce isomaltase?
ME as a brush border enzyme and by amylolytic bacteria (BE)
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What is glucoamylase?
An enzyme that hydrolizes one glucose molecule from starch
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What produces glucoamylase?
ME into a brush border enzyme and by amylolytic bacteria (BE)
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What is lactase?
An enzyme that hydrolizes lactose into glucose and galactose
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What is sucrase?
A brush border enzyme that hydrolizes sucrose into glucose and fructose
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What is phlorizin hydrolase?
A brush border enzyme that cleaves sugars that are bound to lipids
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What is GLUT1?
A transporter found in the brain, placenta, and erythrocytes
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What is GLUT2?
Transports glucose, fructose, and galactose out of the enterocyte and into the bloodstream (found in viscera)
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Where can GLUT2 be found?
Pancreas, liver, kindeys, and intestines
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What is GLUT3?
Transporter in neuronal and placental tissue
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What is GLUT4?
Insulin responsive transporter found in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and adipose tissue
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What is GLUT5
Apically expressed transporter that facilitates the diffusion of fructose
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What is insulin produced by?
The beta cells in the pancreas
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What is insulin produced in response to?
An increase of blood glucose concentration (like after eating)
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What does the production of insulin result in?
Increased protein synthesis, increased glycogen synthesis (liver and muscle tissue), increased fat synthesis, and decreased gluconeogenesis
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What is gluconeogenesis?
The creation of glucose via amino acids
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What is glycogen?
A carbohydrate that acts as a storage form of glucose in the liver and muscles
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What is Type I Diabetes?
When the pancreas does not produce insulin which makes it difficult to decrease the blood glucose concentration
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Which type of diabetes is solely genetic?
Type I
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What is Type II Diabetes?
When cells (muscle and adipose) ignore the insulin signal, so there is no GLUT4 translocation which can make it diffcult to decrease the blood glucose concentration
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What can cause Type II Diabetes?
Genetics, diet, or excercise
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Which type of diabetes can be reversed with diet and excercise?
Type II
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What does the translocation of GLUT4 within a cell do?
It allows for glucose to enter the cell and be used for fat synthesis
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What signals for GLUT4 to translocate towards the outside of the cell?
Insulin
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Where does glycogen synthesis occur?
Muscle cells
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Where does fat synthesis occur?
Adipocytes
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What are adipocytes?
Fat cells
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What transporter(s) does insulin independent absorption use?
GLUT1-3
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What transporter(s) does insulin dependent absorption use?
GLUT4
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What does amylose produce when it is hydrolized by pancreatic alpha amylase?
Maltose and maltotriose
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What does amylopectin produce when it is hydrolized by pancreatic alpha amylase?
Maltose, maltotriose, and isomaltose
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What is glucagon?
A hormone produced by pancreatic alpha cells that plays a crucial role in regulating blood glucose levels when they are low
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What conditions causes an increase in glucagon production?
Decreased blood glucose concentration (fasting conditions)
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What does glucagon result in?
Increased gluconeogenesis, increased glycogen breakdown, decreased protein synthesis, and decreased fat synthesis
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How do glucagon and insulin relate to one another?
They don't - they are essentially the exact opposite of one another in purpose and results
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What is a hydrogen sink?
A molecule where microbes deposite H+ to allow microbial metabolism to continue
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What are the main hydrogen sinks?
CH4, Propionate, and Unsaturated Fatty Acids
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What is amylolytic bacteria?
Bacteria that produce microbial enzymes to breakdown starch
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What is alpha amylase?
An endoenzyme that hydrolizes starch randomly and is produced by amylolytic bacteria (BE)
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What is an endoenzyme?
An enzyme that attacks starch on the inside of a molecule to produce oligosaccharides
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What is beta amylase?
An exoenzyme that produces maltose, isomaltose, and maltotriose and is produced by amylolytic bacteria (BE)
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What is an exoenzyme?
An enzyme that attacks starch on the end/outside of the molecule
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What is pullulanase?
An enzyme that hydrolizes 1,6 glycosidic bonds, essentially debranching an enzyme, and capable of attacking the inside of a starch molecule
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What is cellulolytic bacteria?
Bacteria that produce microbial enzymes to breakdown cellulose and produce more methane
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What enzymes do celluloytic bacteria produce?
Exoglucanase, endoglucanase, cellobiohydralase, cellobiosodase, cellobiase, and cellodextrinase
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What do the enzymes produced by cellulolytic bacteria make up?
The cellulase complex
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What is exoglucanase?
An enzyme that produces one glucose from a cellulose molecule (BE)
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What is exoglucananse produced by?
Cellulolytic bacteria, making it microbial
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What is endoglucanase?
A microbial enzyme that produces oligosaccharides of various lengths from cellulose (BE)
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What is endoglucanase produced by?
Cellulolytic bacteria, making it a microbial enzyme
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What is cellobiohydralase?
A microbial enzyme that produces cellobiose from oligosaccharides (produced by cellulolytic bacteria)
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What is cellobiosidase?
A microbial enzyme that produces cellobiose from oligosaccharides (produced by cellulolytic bacteria)
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What is cellobiase?
A microbial enzyme that produces 2 glucose from cellobiose (produced by cellulolytic bacteria)
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What is cellodextrinase?
A microbial enzyme that cleaves a glucose from cellulose (produced by cellulolytic bacteria)
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What is ruminant acidosis?
An accumulation of lactate in the reticulorumen that results in a pH of or less than 5.5
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What is hindgut overload?
Similar to ruminal acidosis but occurs in horses
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What is ionophore?
An antibiotic
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What is rumensin?
Feed additive that regulates intake (number and size of meals), then selects for a more favorable fermentation/microbiology population
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What does rumensin do to the body/community?
Decreases methane production, improves protein ulitlization, decreases ruminal degradation
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What is the goal of fermenting carbohydrates?
To take one glucose and turn it into Acetate, Propionate, Butyrate, CO2, and CH4
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What are the products of carbohydrate fermentation?
Acetate, Propionate, Butyrate, CO2, and CH4
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What is the number of VFAs per glucose produced from acetate?
2
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What is the number of VFAs per glucose produced from propionate?
2
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What is the number of VFAs per glucose produced from butyrate?
1
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What is the amount of microbial ATP produced from acetate?
4
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What is the amount of microbial ATP produced from propionate?
1-3
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What is the amount of microbial ATP produced from butyrate?
3
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How much CO2 is produced from acetate?
1
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How much CO2 is produced from propionate?
0
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How much CO2 is produced from butyrate?
15
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How much CH4 is produced from acetate?
1
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How much CH4 is produced from propionate?
Prevents 0.5 CH4 production
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How much CH4 is produced from butyrate?
0.5
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What is the chemical formula for acetate?
CH3COOH
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What is the chemical formula for propionate?
CH3CH2COOH
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What is the chemical formula for butyrate?
CH3CH2CH2COOH
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What percentage of the glucose energy available to mammals is acetate?
62%
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What percentage of the glucose energy available to mammals is propionate?
109% (Because it is hydrogen accepting/hydrogen sink)
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What percentage of the glucose energy available to mammals is butyrate?
78%
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What proportion of APE is acetate?
60%
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What proportion of APE is propionate?
30%
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What proportion of APE is butyrate?
10%
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How does acetate react to an increase in SCHO?
It will icnrease
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How does propionate react to an increase in SCHO?
It will decrease
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How does acetate react to an increase in NCHO?
It will decrease
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How does propionate react to a increase in NCHO?
It will increase
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What does the mammal use acetate for?
Energy (ATP), SubQ fat, and milk fat
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What does the mammal use propionate for?
Energy (ATP), Glycogenetic, marbling
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What does the mammal use butyrates for?
Energy (ATP) and epithelial tissue
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As propionate increases, what happens to methane?
It decreases
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As acetate increases, what happens to methane?
It increases
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Which animal does not use GLUT5?
Cowsuminants because they no longer have any sucrose (digested all of it already)
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Why do horses do a poor job of digesting a large amount of starch in their small intestines?
Because they have a shorter small intestine and smaller stomach, which increases Kp and decreases the time available to digest starch (also limits enzyme production)
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Why do horses have lots of fermentation occur in their large intestine?
Because of how large it is (decrease in Kp), the limited amount of digestion in the small intestines, and diet (lots of SCHO)
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What happens when something has more surface area?
It is easier to digest, and more digestion occurs (easily digestible)
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Which animal does not produce salivary amylase?
Cows
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