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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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1. What breed of cattle is known for high butterfat
Jersey
DNA
Genotype
Abomasum
2. What hormone induces estrus?
LH
Feed additives
Hog cholera
Jersey
3. What is calving difficulty
Anaerobic lagoons
DNA
Rumen
Distosia
4. Dairy cows have an average life of what
3 to 4 years
Vitamin E
Rumen
Hog cholera
5. Spurs growth - maintenance - and reproduction. it can affect fertility in bulls and cows
Vitamin d
Pasteurization
Phenotype
Vitamin a
6. Is rooted in a belief that animals should be humanely treated.
Pietrain
Canine distemper
Animal welfare
Bovinesematictrophin
7. Cows with bleached hair has what kind of deficiency
Copper
Minerals
Inedible and edible
Anaerobic lagoons
8. What has a glandular lining and secrets acids and digestive to break down feed?
Distosia
Abomasum
Feed additives
Mastitis
9. Measured in percentage of crude protein - helps build muscles - connective tissue - and the nervous system. Made of amino acids
Cattle
Chromosome
Oxytosen
Protein
10. Important in developing the digestive system of calves but is not of great need in the diets of adult beef cattle.
Vitamin D
Iron
Omasum
Inedible and edible
11. Are a resting place for dairy cattle. is built such that the cow can come inside the stall and leave at will.
Phenotype
Reticulum
Stag
Freestalls
12. In the U.S. what breed is the top # in horses?
Small intestine
3 to 4 years
Quarter Horses
Stag
13. 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
Vitamin D
Reticulum
Iron
Jersey
14. What does mortality loss mean
Livestock lagoon
Jersey
Death rate
Reticulum
15. Smaller cattle and those higher in milking potential usually
Mature early
Ruminates
Vitamin E
Food and Fiber
16. Is given to increase milk production
Ruminates
Marbling
Bovinesematictrophin
Mastitis
17. What is the biggest expense for any animal
Cattle
Aquaculture
Two - stage lagoons
Feed
18. Retaining liquid acts as a small waste water treatment facility.
Large Intestine
Quarter Horses
Animal welfare
Livestock lagoon
19. What are the 2 classifications of meat
Inedible and edible
Distosia
Anthrax
Aerobic lagoons
20. Use the first lagoon to take in the waste and allows solid and settle.
Feed additives
Stag
Two - stage lagoons
Homogenization
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
Anthrax
Certain parasites
Vitamin E
Food and Fiber
22. At what age an animal is weaned also plays a part in resisting_______-.
Sleving
3 to 4 years
Certain parasites
Quarter Horses
23. Is a male swine castrated after signs of developing the secondary characteristics of a boar.
Abomasum
Stag
Phenotype
Oxytosen
24. What disease causes loss in production in dairy cattle
Two - stage lagoons
Homogenization
Reticulum
Mastitis
25. what kind of animals would eat forages and roughage
Copper
Two - stage lagoons
Ruminates
305
26. Is the end of the tract for undigested foods.
Feed
Abomasum
Large Intestine
Rumen
27. What part contains heavy feed and any metal items eaten by the cow?
Mature early
Sleving
Stag
Reticulum
28. Are more affected by potential toxicity than are sheep
Cattle
Phenotype
Quarter Horses
Cecum
29. Is taking samples of grazed pasture and examining a larve - to - grass ratio
Field count
Homogenization
3 to 4 years
Hog cholera
30. What breed of swine is PSS most commonly found in?
Pietrain
Vitamin a
Omasum
Quarter Horses
31. what is creamy and 1st milk for young
Colostrum
Large Intestine
Jersey
Fecal counts
32. What is on the left side of a cow and is the largest of the four compartments?
Rumen
Pasteurization
3 to 4 years
Canine distemper
33. A DNA code that directs an organisms characterstics
Yearling rate
Bovinesematictrophin
Genotype
Small intestine
34. To develop muscle
Phenotype
Vitamin E
Two - stage lagoons
Ruminates
35. Help to improve some facet of animal nutrition
Pasteurization
Phenotype
Vitamin D
Feed additives
36. Are needed for functions such as bone formation and growth
Minerals
Jersey
Omasum
Reticulum
37. A procedure in which particle sizes are sorted by forcing the particles through pores or openings
Sleving
Fecal counts
Stag
Homogenization
38. Usually some 20 times longer than the cow itself.
Small intestine
Vitamin d
Feed additives
Bovinesematictrophin
39. Growth rate in cattle reflected by
LH
Field count
Yearling rate
Homogenization
40. Helps animals with worms that drain blood.
Iron
Copper
Pasteurization
Aerobic lagoons
41. Bone development
Omasum
Small intestine
Abomasum
Vitamin d
42. Is growing aquatic plants or animals in a closed environment
305
Aquaculture
Protein
Distosia
43. The process that prevents milk fat from separating from milk products.
Anaerobic lagoons
Feed
DNA
Homogenization
44. Are used to identify parasites that maybe in animals and to count the parasites found in stool by the grain.
Fecal counts
Abomasum
Two - stage lagoons
Anaerobic lagoons
45. Refers to the belief of those that animlas should not be used in any explotive nature.
Aerobic lagoons
Animal rights
Reticulum
Death rate
46. Operate with oxygen either mechanically or naturally.
Distosia
LH
Anthrax
Aerobic lagoons
47. It is inherited matter that is behind growth - development and function of cells
Freestalls
Minerals
DNA
Protein
48. A structure that is in the ncleus of cells containing DNA molecules
Vitamin a
Livestock lagoon
Small intestine
Chromosome
49. What breed of cattle is known for tolerant of heat and produce more pounds of milk per body weight than other breeds?
Pietrain
Sleving
Jersey
Vitamin a
50. What are the lactation period for dairy cattle
Jersey
305
Oxytosen
Sleving