Quiz over Ruminants and Non Ruminants What is a ruminant? Ruminants are those animals that contain a multi-chambered digestive system (polygastric) that allows the animals to gain the majority of their nutritional needs from forages and other roughages. What is a monogastric (non-ruminant)? Monogastric system have a simple stomach structure and only one compartment such as carnivores and omnivores Label the four parts of a ruminant stomach. 4. Functions of the digestive system of animals include? 1. Ingestion (eating) 2. Chewing (mastication) 3. Swallowing (deglutition) 4. Absorption of nutrients 5. Elimination of solid wastes (defecation)
Quiz over Ruminants and Non Ruminants What is a ruminant? Ruminants are those animals that contain a multi-chambered digestive system (polygastric) that allows the animals to gain the majority of their nutritional needs from forages and other roughages. What is a monogastric (non-ruminant)? Monogastric system have a simple stomach structure and only one compartment such as carnivores and omnivores Label the four parts of a ruminant stomach. 4. Functions of the digestive system of animals include? 1. Ingestion (eating) 2. Chewing (mastication) 3. Swallowing (deglutition) 4. Absorption of nutrients 5. Elimination of solid wastes (defecation)
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