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Which one or two of the following nutrient transporters is or are responsible for small intestinal absorption of glucose? A.  GLUT1 B.  PepT1 C.  CAT1 D.  SGLT1 E.  A and B F.   A and C G.  A and D

Dietary deficiency of which vitamin can cause a cattle eye blind with copious lacrimation?(A) Vitamin A(B) Vitamin K(C) Vitamin E(D) Vitamin D(E) Vitamin B

In pigs fed typical grain and soy based diets, the ME to DE ratio is roughly ___________%.(A) 40 to 50(B) 50 to 60(C) 70 to 80(D) 90 to 92(E) 95 to 97

Animal teeth do not have one of these following functions.

Please define gluconeogenesis (Please mention at least 3 different types of substrates). Why gluconeogenesis is especially important in ruminants?

Hypervitaminosis means an abnormal condition caused by vitamin deficiency. 

In animal body, only the L-amino acids (not the D-amino acids) can be used as building blocks for protein synthesis.

How many CO2 molecules are generated from one complete Citric Acid Cycle?

Alanine dehydrogenase can remove an ammonia (-NH3) group from an alanine molecule, and after that the alanine molecule will become ___________. 

Different from enzymes that have proenzyme forms, no vitamin has any pro-vitamin form in animal tissues.