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Basic Biology Practice Test: Basics of Animal Nutrition
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1. A hiatal hernia that disrupts the functional relationship between the smooth muscle in the esophagus and that in the stomach would be most likely to increase the frequency of
2. The molar teeth of herbivorous mammals are especially effective at
3. An advantage of a complete digestive system over a gastrovascular cavity is that the complete system
4. An enlarged cecum is typical of
5. Which of the following is not a major activity of the stomach?
6. PKU (phenylketonuria) is a hereditary condition in which infants and young children who ingest the amino acid phenylalanine risk serious neurological damage. However, the risk of damage can be substantially reduced by the severe restriction of phenylalanine in the diet. Which of the following is the nutritional concept that forms the basis for this preventive treatment?
7. After surgical removal of an infected gallbladder, a person must be especially careful to restrict dietary intake of
8. The fat-soluble vitamins include
9. A fasting animal whose energy needs exceed those provided in its diet draws on its stored resources in which order?
10. The absorption of fats differs from that of carbohydrates in that the
11. Animals that migrate great distances would obtain the greatest energetic benefit of storing chemical energy as
12. Coprophagy, the nutrition-boosting ingestion of fecal material, is important for the nutritional balance of
13. Analysis of jawbones from the skeletal remains of a vertebrate animal reveal its dietary patterns owing to
14. The cells that secrete acidic fluid in the stomach are
15. Earthworms, grasshoppers, and birds all have a
16. Among mammals, it is generally true that
17. A mineral that is especially important for preventing anemia is
18. After ingestion by humans, the first category of macromolecules to be chemically digested by enzymes in the mouth is
19. The bile salts
20. Salivary amylase digests
21. An enzyme with high activity in an acidic environment is
22. If you were to jog 1 km a few hours after lunch, which stored fuel would you probably tap?
23. In marine sponges, intracellular digestion of peptides is usually immediately preceded by
24. Folic acid supplements have become especially important for pregnant women because
25. Cattle are able to survive on a diet consisting almost entirely of plant material because