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