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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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1. 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
Colostrum
Stag
Field count
Reticulum
2. Refers to organsims modified by genetic engineering and containing DNA from external sources.
Phenotype
Transgenic
Field count
Feed
3. What does mortality loss mean
Food and Fiber
Ruminates
Death rate
Bovinesematictrophin
4. Are more affected by potential toxicity than are sheep
Two - stage lagoons
Genotype
Jersey
Cattle
5. 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
Genotype
Vitamin D
Food and Fiber
Certain parasites
6. Is rooted in a belief that animals should be humanely treated.
Animal welfare
Pasteurization
Feed
Vitamin d
7. What are the 2 classifications of meat
Inedible and edible
LH
Animal rights
Certain parasites
8. What is the biggest expense for any animal
Inedible and edible
Pasteurization
Feed
Rumen
9. Measured in percentage of crude protein - helps build muscles - connective tissue - and the nervous system. Made of amino acids
Protein
Oxytosen
Canine distemper
Pasteurization
10. Refers to the belief of those that animlas should not be used in any explotive nature.
Aerobic lagoons
Cecum
Rumen
Animal rights
11. Use the first lagoon to take in the waste and allows solid and settle.
Animal welfare
Animal rights
Two - stage lagoons
Rumen
12. What collects water and other matter from the digestion system?
Small intestine
Rumen
Omasum
Yearling rate
13. An acute infectious disease that comes from bacterium.
Anthrax
Anaerobic lagoons
Jersey
305
14. Is a male swine castrated after signs of developing the secondary characteristics of a boar.
Canine distemper
Genotype
Protein
Stag
15. The expression of the genes present in an individual.
Jersey
Vitamin d
Phenotype
Vitamin a
16. What is calving difficulty
Vitamin a
Distosia
Omasum
Rumen
17. What breed of cattle is known for tolerant of heat and produce more pounds of milk per body weight than other breeds?
Small intestine
Pasteurization
Jersey
Marbling
18. Are a resting place for dairy cattle. is built such that the cow can come inside the stall and leave at will.
Animal rights
DNA
Freestalls
Chromosome
19. It is inherited matter that is behind growth - development and function of cells
Stag
DNA
Two - stage lagoons
Death rate
20. Spurs growth - maintenance - and reproduction. it can affect fertility in bulls and cows
Pietrain
Vitamin a
Copper
Bovinesematictrophin
21. Is a process in which the milk is heated in order to destroy organisms that can cause disease
Aerobic lagoons
3 to 4 years
Pasteurization
LH
22. what kind of animals would eat forages and roughage
Stag
Feed
Ruminates
Abomasum
23. Are needed for functions such as bone formation and growth
Minerals
Homogenization
Animal welfare
Certain parasites
24. To develop muscle
Abomasum
Vitamin E
Large Intestine
Yearling rate
25. Dairy cows have an average life of what
3 to 4 years
Anaerobic lagoons
Jersey
Anthrax
26. Also known as swine fever - contagious viral disease found in swine.
Cattle
Distosia
Hog cholera
Homogenization
27. Is given to increase milk production
Inedible and edible
Bovinesematictrophin
Mature early
Pietrain
28. Bone development
Cattle
Aquaculture
Hog cholera
Vitamin d
29. What has a glandular lining and secrets acids and digestive to break down feed?
Stag
Protein
Copper
Abomasum
30. What are the lactation period for dairy cattle
Homogenization
Vitamin a
Canine distemper
305
31. 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.
Cecum
Animal welfare
Oxytosen
Pasteurization
32. Smaller cattle and those higher in milking potential usually
Freestalls
DNA
Hog cholera
Mature early
33. What breed of swine is PSS most commonly found in?
LH
Omasum
Pietrain
Animal welfare
34. A structure that is in the ncleus of cells containing DNA molecules
Abomasum
Chromosome
Colostrum
Sleving
35. Helps animals with worms that drain blood.
DNA
Iron
Pietrain
Vitamin a
36. Milk let down is caused by
Pietrain
Oxytosen
Copper
Omasum
37. Important in developing the digestive system of calves but is not of great need in the diets of adult beef cattle.
Vitamin D
Animal rights
Mature early
Reticulum
38. Usually some 20 times longer than the cow itself.
Ruminates
Aquaculture
Small intestine
Reticulum
39. What disease causes loss in production in dairy cattle
Mastitis
LH
Ruminates
Fecal counts
40. At what age an animal is weaned also plays a part in resisting_______-.
Cecum
Iron
Certain parasites
Reticulum
41. what is creamy and 1st milk for young
Colostrum
LH
Fecal counts
Vitamin d
42. The main factor in determining the USDA quality grade which indicates factors including juiciness - tenderness - and flavor
Hog cholera
Jersey
Marbling
Two - stage lagoons
43. Is the end of the tract for undigested foods.
Bovinesematictrophin
Mastitis
Large Intestine
Animal rights
44. What is on the left side of a cow and is the largest of the four compartments?
Aerobic lagoons
Cecum
Rumen
Canine distemper
45. A procedure in which particle sizes are sorted by forcing the particles through pores or openings
Sleving
Phenotype
Cattle
Anthrax
46. Retaining liquid acts as a small waste water treatment facility.
Two - stage lagoons
Genotype
Cattle
Livestock lagoon
47. A contagious viral disease found in dogs.
Stag
Marbling
Fecal counts
Canine distemper
48. What hormone induces estrus?
Minerals
Inedible and edible
Distosia
LH
49. Growth rate in cattle reflected by
Iron
Food and Fiber
Hog cholera
Yearling rate
50. Help to improve some facet of animal nutrition
Anaerobic lagoons
Feed additives
Rumen
Death rate