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Praxis Animal Science
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praxis
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veterinary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Also known as swine fever - contagious viral disease found in swine.
Hog cholera
Rumen
Freestalls
Two - stage lagoons
2. Smaller cattle and those higher in milking potential usually
Genotype
Pasteurization
Two - stage lagoons
Mature early
3. Is the end of the tract for undigested foods.
Pasteurization
Minerals
Large Intestine
Sleving
4. Are used to identify parasites that maybe in animals and to count the parasites found in stool by the grain.
Vitamin d
Homogenization
Fecal counts
Animal welfare
5. Help to improve some facet of animal nutrition
Anaerobic lagoons
Feed additives
Large Intestine
Pasteurization
6. A procedure in which particle sizes are sorted by forcing the particles through pores or openings
305
Pasteurization
Sleving
Colostrum
7. Spurs growth - maintenance - and reproduction. it can affect fertility in bulls and cows
Jersey
Vitamin a
Feed
Phenotype
8. Is given to increase milk production
Anthrax
Bovinesematictrophin
Genotype
Canine distemper
9. What has a glandular lining and secrets acids and digestive to break down feed?
Abomasum
Quarter Horses
Reticulum
Canine distemper
10. What breed of cattle is known for high butterfat
Jersey
Animal welfare
Vitamin a
Phenotype
11. Usually some 20 times longer than the cow itself.
DNA
Food and Fiber
Small intestine
Vitamin d
12. Retaining liquid acts as a small waste water treatment facility.
Copper
Stag
Livestock lagoon
Oxytosen
13. Is a process in which the milk is heated in order to destroy organisms that can cause disease
Chromosome
Inedible and edible
Abomasum
Pasteurization
14. what is creamy and 1st milk for young
DNA
Transgenic
Food and Fiber
Colostrum
15. what kind of animals would eat forages and roughage
Distosia
Jersey
Food and Fiber
Ruminates
16. An acute infectious disease that comes from bacterium.
Anaerobic lagoons
Fecal counts
Anthrax
Sleving
17. Measured in percentage of crude protein - helps build muscles - connective tissue - and the nervous system. Made of amino acids
Large Intestine
Animal welfare
Aerobic lagoons
Protein
18. Bone development
Hog cholera
Reticulum
Vitamin d
Anthrax
19. Is taking samples of grazed pasture and examining a larve - to - grass ratio
Quarter Horses
Large Intestine
Field count
Anthrax
20. What disease causes loss in production in dairy cattle
Mastitis
DNA
Bovinesematictrophin
Sleving
21. Refers to all economic activity that is related to the processing - production - and marketing of agriculture products from the source of the product to the consumer
Canine distemper
Colostrum
Food and Fiber
Field count
22. A structure that is in the ncleus of cells containing DNA molecules
Death rate
Marbling
Food and Fiber
Chromosome
23. What breed of swine is PSS most commonly found in?
Genotype
Canine distemper
Freestalls
Pietrain
24. Is rooted in a belief that animals should be humanely treated.
Distosia
Cattle
305
Animal welfare
25. The main factor in determining the USDA quality grade which indicates factors including juiciness - tenderness - and flavor
Large Intestine
Marbling
Inedible and edible
Hog cholera
26. Use the first lagoon to take in the waste and allows solid and settle.
DNA
Two - stage lagoons
Vitamin d
Distosia
27. What is on the left side of a cow and is the largest of the four compartments?
Anthrax
Sleving
Pietrain
Rumen
28. Dairy cows have an average life of what
Vitamin D
Feed additives
3 to 4 years
Jersey
29. The process that prevents milk fat from separating from milk products.
Marbling
Homogenization
Stag
Minerals
30. Is growing aquatic plants or animals in a closed environment
Two - stage lagoons
Stag
Aquaculture
Vitamin E
31. What is the biggest expense for any animal
Feed
Canine distemper
Phenotype
Transgenic
32. It is inherited matter that is behind growth - development and function of cells
Large Intestine
DNA
Pasteurization
Phenotype
33. Important in developing the digestive system of calves but is not of great need in the diets of adult beef cattle.
305
Vitamin D
Aquaculture
Anthrax
34. What is calving difficulty
DNA
Freestalls
Vitamin D
Distosia
35. Is a male swine castrated after signs of developing the secondary characteristics of a boar.
Phenotype
Hog cholera
Stag
3 to 4 years
36. What part contains heavy feed and any metal items eaten by the cow?
305
Copper
Vitamin E
Reticulum
37. What are the lactation period for dairy cattle
Stag
Livestock lagoon
Omasum
305
38. The expression of the genes present in an individual.
Phenotype
Chromosome
Certain parasites
305
39. Milk let down is caused by
Oxytosen
Omasum
Field count
Rumen
40. At what age an animal is weaned also plays a part in resisting_______-.
Large Intestine
Omasum
3 to 4 years
Certain parasites
41. What does mortality loss mean
Death rate
Vitamin d
Protein
Quarter Horses
42. Growth rate in cattle reflected by
Yearling rate
Vitamin d
Vitamin D
Mastitis
43. A DNA code that directs an organisms characterstics
Genotype
Abomasum
Yearling rate
Iron
44. Refers to the belief of those that animlas should not be used in any explotive nature.
Animal rights
Food and Fiber
Small intestine
Vitamin E
45. What are the 2 classifications of meat
Freestalls
Inedible and edible
Pasteurization
Homogenization
46. In the U.S. what breed is the top # in horses?
LH
Yearling rate
Livestock lagoon
Quarter Horses
47. Refers to organsims modified by genetic engineering and containing DNA from external sources.
Transgenic
Phenotype
Stag
Vitamin a
48. Located at the intersection of the large and small intestine. it is a large area in which fiber that has not been digested it broken down.
Jersey
Cecum
Mature early
Feed additives
49. What hormone induces estrus?
LH
Sleving
Jersey
Feed additives
50. Are more affected by potential toxicity than are sheep
Oxytosen
Stag
Cattle
Pasteurization