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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. The process that prevents milk fat from separating from milk products.
Quarter Horses
Homogenization
DNA
Minerals
2. Is given to increase milk production
Certain parasites
Bovinesematictrophin
Freestalls
Mastitis
3. What is calving difficulty
LH
Distosia
Inedible and edible
Aerobic lagoons
4. Also known as swine fever - contagious viral disease found in swine.
Hog cholera
Livestock lagoon
Inedible and edible
Two - stage lagoons
5. Spurs growth - maintenance - and reproduction. it can affect fertility in bulls and cows
Small intestine
Transgenic
Vitamin a
Oxytosen
6. What has a glandular lining and secrets acids and digestive to break down feed?
Mastitis
Abomasum
Iron
Oxytosen
7. What disease causes loss in production in dairy cattle
Two - stage lagoons
Mastitis
Anthrax
Food and Fiber
8. what kind of animals would eat forages and roughage
Fecal counts
Bovinesematictrophin
Reticulum
Ruminates
9. In the U.S. what breed is the top # in horses?
Abomasum
Quarter Horses
Phenotype
Anthrax
10. Growth rate in cattle reflected by
Yearling rate
Vitamin d
Copper
Genotype
11. Important in developing the digestive system of calves but is not of great need in the diets of adult beef cattle.
Iron
Mastitis
Vitamin D
Minerals
12. A contagious viral disease found in dogs.
Canine distemper
Vitamin a
Inedible and edible
Quarter Horses
13. What collects water and other matter from the digestion system?
Livestock lagoon
Colostrum
Vitamin D
Omasum
14. Are those biological waste systems that operate without oxygen.
Sleving
Colostrum
Iron
Anaerobic lagoons
15. An acute infectious disease that comes from bacterium.
Anthrax
Food and Fiber
Stag
Phenotype
16. What part of the cow digestive system is in the forward area of the cow's body and resembles a pouch with honeycomb like tissue
Reticulum
Rumen
Field count
Two - stage lagoons
17. It is inherited matter that is behind growth - development and function of cells
Distosia
Vitamin d
Hog cholera
DNA
18. What breed of cattle is known for tolerant of heat and produce more pounds of milk per body weight than other breeds?
Vitamin D
Cecum
Jersey
Phenotype
19. 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
Food and Fiber
Anthrax
Freestalls
Omasum
20. Smaller cattle and those higher in milking potential usually
Fecal counts
Transgenic
Ruminates
Mature early
21. Is a process in which the milk is heated in order to destroy organisms that can cause disease
Two - stage lagoons
Pasteurization
Canine distemper
Ruminates
22. Is the end of the tract for undigested foods.
Large Intestine
Abomasum
Oxytosen
Jersey
23. Are needed for functions such as bone formation and growth
Rumen
Certain parasites
Colostrum
Minerals
24. Refers to organsims modified by genetic engineering and containing DNA from external sources.
LH
Transgenic
Genotype
Feed additives
25. Refers to the belief of those that animlas should not be used in any explotive nature.
Inedible and edible
Two - stage lagoons
Distosia
Animal rights
26. What is the biggest expense for any animal
Abomasum
Reticulum
Feed
Freestalls
27. Is a male swine castrated after signs of developing the secondary characteristics of a boar.
Two - stage lagoons
Marbling
Stag
Bovinesematictrophin
28. Cows with bleached hair has what kind of deficiency
Aerobic lagoons
Copper
Chromosome
Two - stage lagoons
29. Is rooted in a belief that animals should be humanely treated.
Chromosome
Feed
Animal welfare
Phenotype
30. Are a resting place for dairy cattle. is built such that the cow can come inside the stall and leave at will.
Distosia
Field count
Freestalls
Canine distemper
31. Is taking samples of grazed pasture and examining a larve - to - grass ratio
Abomasum
Distosia
Bovinesematictrophin
Field count
32. Use the first lagoon to take in the waste and allows solid and settle.
Colostrum
Feed
Large Intestine
Two - stage lagoons
33. Bone development
Vitamin d
Large Intestine
Pietrain
Stag
34. A structure that is in the ncleus of cells containing DNA molecules
Food and Fiber
Chromosome
Jersey
Vitamin D
35. Helps animals with worms that drain blood.
Iron
Vitamin a
Fecal counts
Ruminates
36. What does mortality loss mean
Death rate
Livestock lagoon
Reticulum
Sleving
37. What are the lactation period for dairy cattle
Phenotype
Pasteurization
305
Vitamin E
38. At what age an animal is weaned also plays a part in resisting_______-.
Certain parasites
Feed
Ruminates
LH
39. Operate with oxygen either mechanically or naturally.
Homogenization
LH
Aerobic lagoons
Mature early
40. Are more affected by potential toxicity than are sheep
Field count
Jersey
Transgenic
Cattle
41. Measured in percentage of crude protein - helps build muscles - connective tissue - and the nervous system. Made of amino acids
Protein
Transgenic
Hog cholera
DNA
42. Milk let down is caused by
Field count
Bovinesematictrophin
Oxytosen
Rumen
43. Help to improve some facet of animal nutrition
Feed
305
Ruminates
Feed additives
44. The expression of the genes present in an individual.
Phenotype
Vitamin d
Genotype
Copper
45. What is on the left side of a cow and is the largest of the four compartments?
Rumen
Distosia
Marbling
Inedible and edible
46. Usually some 20 times longer than the cow itself.
Food and Fiber
Omasum
Small intestine
Mastitis
47. What breed of cattle is known for high butterfat
Jersey
Animal rights
Chromosome
Distosia
48. Retaining liquid acts as a small waste water treatment facility.
Anaerobic lagoons
Food and Fiber
Livestock lagoon
Quarter Horses
49. Are used to identify parasites that maybe in animals and to count the parasites found in stool by the grain.
Anaerobic lagoons
305
Fecal counts
Jersey
50. The main factor in determining the USDA quality grade which indicates factors including juiciness - tenderness - and flavor
Certain parasites
Yearling rate
Marbling
Canine distemper