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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 is the biggest expense for any animal
Aerobic lagoons
Reticulum
Feed
Colostrum
2. Help to improve some facet of animal nutrition
Yearling rate
305
Feed additives
Anaerobic lagoons
3. Smaller cattle and those higher in milking potential usually
Mature early
Livestock lagoon
Animal rights
Yearling rate
4. What are the 2 classifications of meat
Marbling
Feed
Inedible and edible
DNA
5. What does mortality loss mean
Animal rights
Homogenization
Abomasum
Death rate
6. Operate with oxygen either mechanically or naturally.
Aerobic lagoons
Large Intestine
Jersey
Ruminates
7. Dairy cows have an average life of what
Freestalls
Hog cholera
3 to 4 years
Colostrum
8. To develop muscle
Large Intestine
Animal rights
Vitamin E
Canine distemper
9. Milk let down is caused by
Reticulum
Oxytosen
Aquaculture
Cattle
10. Is given to increase milk production
Cattle
Fecal counts
Bovinesematictrophin
Food and Fiber
11. what is creamy and 1st milk for young
Feed additives
Transgenic
Aquaculture
Colostrum
12. The process that prevents milk fat from separating from milk products.
Colostrum
Homogenization
Reticulum
Vitamin a
13. What is on the left side of a cow and is the largest of the four compartments?
Vitamin a
Freestalls
Rumen
Aquaculture
14. Spurs growth - maintenance - and reproduction. it can affect fertility in bulls and cows
Pietrain
Vitamin a
DNA
Certain parasites
15. What breed of cattle is known for high butterfat
Jersey
Rumen
Aerobic lagoons
Homogenization
16. Are used to identify parasites that maybe in animals and to count the parasites found in stool by the grain.
Copper
Omasum
LH
Fecal counts
17. Is the end of the tract for undigested foods.
Small intestine
Jersey
Genotype
Large Intestine
18. What are the lactation period for dairy cattle
Quarter Horses
Ruminates
Animal rights
305
19. The main factor in determining the USDA quality grade which indicates factors including juiciness - tenderness - and flavor
Omasum
Marbling
Anthrax
Mature early
20. Measured in percentage of crude protein - helps build muscles - connective tissue - and the nervous system. Made of amino acids
Protein
Copper
Hog cholera
Genotype
21. An acute infectious disease that comes from bacterium.
Anthrax
Pietrain
Chromosome
Death rate
22. Usually some 20 times longer than the cow itself.
Inedible and edible
Reticulum
Jersey
Small intestine
23. Is growing aquatic plants or animals in a closed environment
3 to 4 years
Anaerobic lagoons
Aquaculture
Quarter Horses
24. Bone development
Inedible and edible
Animal rights
Vitamin d
Distosia
25. Are needed for functions such as bone formation and growth
Marbling
Protein
Vitamin D
Minerals
26. 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
Reticulum
Homogenization
Food and Fiber
Bovinesematictrophin
27. Helps animals with worms that drain blood.
Pietrain
DNA
Animal welfare
Iron
28. what kind of animals would eat forages and roughage
305
Large Intestine
DNA
Ruminates
29. In the U.S. what breed is the top # in horses?
305
Cecum
Small intestine
Quarter Horses
30. Also known as swine fever - contagious viral disease found in swine.
Reticulum
Hog cholera
Yearling rate
Cecum
31. At what age an animal is weaned also plays a part in resisting_______-.
Certain parasites
Distosia
Omasum
Small intestine
32. 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.
Large Intestine
Cecum
Reticulum
Canine distemper
33. Is a male swine castrated after signs of developing the secondary characteristics of a boar.
Stag
Livestock lagoon
Genotype
LH
34. What is calving difficulty
Protein
Vitamin D
Livestock lagoon
Distosia
35. What hormone induces estrus?
Feed
Livestock lagoon
Iron
LH
36. The expression of the genes present in an individual.
Vitamin D
Oxytosen
Cecum
Phenotype
37. Important in developing the digestive system of calves but is not of great need in the diets of adult beef cattle.
Vitamin D
305
Homogenization
Iron
38. What breed of cattle is known for tolerant of heat and produce more pounds of milk per body weight than other breeds?
Jersey
Chromosome
Bovinesematictrophin
Phenotype
39. What collects water and other matter from the digestion system?
Omasum
Phenotype
Minerals
305
40. What disease causes loss in production in dairy cattle
Distosia
Mastitis
Feed
Omasum
41. Use the first lagoon to take in the waste and allows solid and settle.
Two - stage lagoons
Jersey
Vitamin D
Vitamin a
42. Is taking samples of grazed pasture and examining a larve - to - grass ratio
Fecal counts
Vitamin D
Rumen
Field count
43. What breed of swine is PSS most commonly found in?
Pietrain
3 to 4 years
Bovinesematictrophin
Marbling
44. Are more affected by potential toxicity than are sheep
Animal rights
Cattle
Pietrain
Chromosome
45. What has a glandular lining and secrets acids and digestive to break down feed?
Freestalls
Jersey
Protein
Abomasum
46. Is rooted in a belief that animals should be humanely treated.
Copper
Small intestine
Certain parasites
Animal welfare
47. What part contains heavy feed and any metal items eaten by the cow?
Reticulum
Small intestine
305
Vitamin D
48. Are those biological waste systems that operate without oxygen.
Anaerobic lagoons
Transgenic
Freestalls
Rumen
49. A procedure in which particle sizes are sorted by forcing the particles through pores or openings
Sleving
Reticulum
Abomasum
Death rate
50. Retaining liquid acts as a small waste water treatment facility.
Yearling rate
Large Intestine
Livestock lagoon
Abomasum