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ANS 3440 Vitamins
Livestock Vitamins
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 3
03/25/2014

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What is not used for energy, yield no energy, never polymerized, deficiency affects other nutrient utilization, effective in small amounts, and effects of supplementation following a deficiency are immediate?
Definition
Vitamins
Term
Vitamins are organic compounds required for normal what?
Definition
Growth and Maintenance
Term
Inadequate intake of vitamins leads to what?
Definition
Deficiencies
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Vitamin deficiencies in animals are called what?
Definition
Signs
Term
Vitamin deficiencies in humans are called what?
Definition
Symptoms
Term
These signs and symptoms are predictable if the deficient vitamin is what?
Definition
Known
Term
What 4 factors may affect vitamin content within feedstuff?
Definition
Drought, Forced production, Refinement/Processing, Antimetabolites
Term
Vitamins are supplemented to animal diets to avoid deficiencies and to what?
Definition
Maximize growth, Minimize production costs, Maximize reproduction potential, and Enhance health and well being of animals
Term
The past attributes are essential to the profitability of the what?
Definition
Enterprise
Term
What is Lutein good for?
Definition
Eyes
Term
What does IU stand for?
Definition
International Unit (measure of activity)
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What supplements are preferred separated?
Definition
Vitamin and Minerals
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Excess vitamin E is what?
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Stored not excreted
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Why must vitamins be used ASAP?
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Vitamins over time lose potency
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What factors can affect vitamin premix potency?
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Particle size, pH, Carriers (hulls), Environmental conditions
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What 4 environmental conditions are factors of vitamin premix potency?
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Light, Humidity, Temp, Storage time
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What are the 2 classifications of vitamins?
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Fat soluble and Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in absorption is passive, absorbed similar to other lipid substances?
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Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in absorption is active, sodium driven ATPase system?
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Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in transport is absorbed into the lymph and carried through the blood in specific binding proteins or within lipoproteins?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in transport is absorbed into the blood and carried on albumin or other globulins?
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility is hydrophobic?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility is hydrophilic?
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility storage is stored in adipocytes/liver?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility storage is little to no storage?
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility excretion is feces?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility excretion is urine?
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility toxicity is possible?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in solubility toxicity is unlikely
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Water soluble
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What vitamin classification has provitamins, beta carotene (precursor for vitamin A), ergosterol (precursor of vitamin D)
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Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification typically don't have provitamins
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in distribution is not present in all tissues?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in distribution is universally distributed?
Definition
Water soluble
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What vitamin classification in metabolism is a regulator, antioxidant, immune system, vision?
Definition
Fat soluble
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What vitamin classification in metabolism is an energy transfer, antioxidant, protein synthesis, and important as Co enzyme?
Definition
Water soluble
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