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 204-201 Comparative Nutrition

Note

This course involves the use of animals in experiments. Students should be aware that these experiments are an essential part of the course and exemption from this component is not possible.

Availability

Dookie and Parkville campuses.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Prof Adrian Egan

Prerequisites

202-101 Chemistry for Land and Food Resources, 202-103 Biology for Land and Food Resources.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

24 hrs lectures, 12 hrs tutorials and 36 hrs of practical work, with computer aided learning enhancement

Subject Description

At the end of the subject the students will;

  • understand the physiological and metabolic basis of nutritional requirements;

  • understand the nutritional qualities of particular classes of feedstuffs;

  • understand the principles of feed evaluation and ration formulation;

  • be familiar with principles and practices in diagnosis of nutritional inadequacies and nutrition-related diseases;

  • be familiar with commonly used computer-based nutritional models;

  • have used simulation models in solving nutritional problems;

  • be able to formulate rations for particular classes of animal;

  • and be able to formulate supplements for animals under specified nutritional circumstances.

An understanding of basic nutrition is a prerequisite for subsequent courses in the Animal Sciences stream and enables the student to appreciate (a) the significance to animal production of many other subjects in the course and (b) the nutritional quality criteria in production and processing of human foods and animal feeds.

Content includes:

  • nutrition and Energy Metabolism Basic nutritional and bioenergetic concepts;

  • the nutrients, their chemical and physical properties, digestion, metabolism, and metabolic roles and interactions; their supply and availability in feedstuffs;

  • nutritional requirements of animals;

  • the central role in animal production of efficiency of conversion of feeds to desired products;

  • food resources: identification and utilization. in meeting nutritional needs of domestic animals and humans;

  • and basic ration formulation and problem solving in nutrition.

Assessment

Three-hour examination (40%) and three practical assignments equivalent to 2500 words (each worth 20%).

Prescribed Texts
  • McDonald, Edwards, Greenhalgh and Morgan, Animal Nutrition 5th Edition. Longman Scientific, Harlow.
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