BIOL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Herbaceous Plant, Hindgut Fermentation, Pepsin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1050
• Professor: multiple

Document Summary

Categorize the animal by the diet that they eat: herbivores eat herbaceous plants (grazers (grasses and legumes) and browsers (woody plants)), omnivores (eat plants and animals), carnivores (eat animals) Her(cid:271)i(cid:448)ores ha(cid:448)e dental adaptations ((cid:272)o(cid:449)s don"t ha(cid:448)e upper teeth and donkeys don"t have canines) these are designed for plucking grass or other techniques for herbivores. Omnivores have dental adaptations (have teeth for chop grasses and molars to grind meat) Carnivores have dental adaptations (larger canines and incisors) Ingestion includes: biting and chewing (harvesting and grinding), salivation (add water to food and add enzymes), swallowing (move bolus of food to stomach) Microbes produce methane, abomasum is full of left over dead microbes and protein and provide energy to cow and it is not very acidic. Microbes are going through their own reproductive cycles.