Animal/Plant Composition and Analysis

Plants make use of CO2, H2O, nitrates and mineral salts to form what?

CO2, water, nitrates, and mineral salts are used in plants to form carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Animals need these components to build their bodies

All life processes originate from?

All life processes originate from the plant kingdom

What is the main constituent in animals v.s. plants

Protein (usually in the young and thin) in animals and carbohydrates in plants

What is the structure in animals v.s. plants?

Minerals and protein (bones and muscles) in animals and carbohydrates (cellulose) in plants

What is the energy storage in animals v.s. plants?

Fat in animals and carbohydrates (starch) in plants

CHO (carbohydrates, hydrogen, and oxygen) is the main constituent of plants but only found in ____ in the animal body

Traces in the animal body

Protein is primarily a constituent of active growing tissue (leaves are higher than stem). As a plant continues to grow, protein translocates to where?

As a plants matures, protein translocates to the seed

What are byproducts feeds?

Products remaining after processing commodities for other purposes

What are the meat industry byproducts?

Meat and bone meal, blood meal, tankage, feather meal

What are the byproducts of the milling industry?

Wheat minds and wheat bran

What are byproducts of the brewing industry?

Distillers dried grains

What are the byproducts of the oil industry?

Soybean meal, fish meal, and peanut meal

What are the byproducts of the fruit beverage industry?

Dried citrus pulp and dried tomato pulp

What are byproducts from the agriculture industry?

• Harvest residue: stalks and vines

• Waste: Ensiled poultry litter

Cattle with roughage diets must be supplied what mineral?

Phosphorus must be supplied to cattle with a roughage diet

Cattle with a concentrate diet must be supplied what supplement?

Calcium and phosphorus must be supplied to cattle with concentrate diets

What % of calcium and phosphorus make up the animals ash?

70%

What % of calcium and phosphorus are in plants?

1-2% (except in legumes)

What is cellulose?

An organic carbohydrate polysaccharide made of glucose units providing structure to plant cell walls

What animals can digest cellulose?

• Ruminants: pre-gastric fermentation

• Hindgut fermenters

What is startch?

A complex carbohydrate/ polysaccharide from glucose molecules serving as a energy storage