AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

DIGESTION IN DIFFERENT ANIMALS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Living things that have MORE than one stomach compartment are referred to as ____ OR ____
A
Polygastric
B
Monogastric
C
Bovine
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ruminants and camelids are a group of animals that have stomachs with multiple compartments. Ruminants have four compartments to their stomachs while the camelids have three compartments. Examples of ruminant animals include cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and deer. Camelids include llamas, alpacas and camels.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, and white-tailed deer are mammals that have a multi-chambered stomach used to digest plant materials through fermentation. Dr.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ruminant Digestive Systems. Ruminants are those animals that contain a multi-chambered digestive system (polygastric) that allows the animal to gain the majority of their nutritional needs from forages and other roughages. cattle, sheep/goats, deer and elk.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ruminant stomachs have four compartments: the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.

Detailed explanation-5: -True ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and antelope, have one stomach with four compartments: the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasums.

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