Exam 1
This organ churns food around to break it down, produces HCl to lower pH, and enzymes to help chemically breakdown food.
What is the stomach?
What is the 'forgotten' nutrient, but considered the most important?
What is water?
When a ___ gives birth, it's called farrowing.
What is a pig?
The purpose of the ovaries.
What is to produce eggs and female hormones like estrogen?
This hormone is responsible for development of male characteristics.
What is testosterone?
Rabbits and horses are herbivorous monogastrics. They are considered _____ fermenters.
A red pig (rr) and a pink pig (RR) have a litter of piglets with alleles Rr. All of the piglets are pink. This means the R allele is dominant, codominant, or recessive to the r allele?
What is dominant?
The hormone responsible for ovulation in the female.
What is LH (leutinizing hormone)?
The tight muscle in the female reproductive tract that holds the fetus in until parturition.
What is the cervix?
This part of the female reproductive tract captures an ovulated egg, like a catchers mitt, and guides it to the oviduct.
What is the infundibulum?
Animals use energy from food to meet their _____ requirements before devoting energy to growth or work.
What is maintenance?
The sum of genetics + environmental influence. What you actually 'see' on an animal is it's ______type.
What is phenotype?
The first milk containing maternal antibodies important for health and survival of the young is called ____.
What is colostrum?
A positive correlation between 2 traits is always a good thing.
What is false?
A ___ animal is a working dog or mini horse, not a pet, that performs a certain task for the benefit of an individual with a disability.
What is a service animal?
The four sections of ruminant stomach.
What are rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum?
A carbohydrate source for ruminants, but not digestible by monogastrics.
What is cellulose?
The most profitable use of goats in the US is for ___ production.
What is meat?
The primary way a beef producer can change the genetics of their herd is through selection of the breeding ___ .
What is bull?
The length of the estrous cycle in cattle.
What is ~21 days?
What are fat, vitamins, minerals, water, protein, and carbohydrates?
The most productive climate type in the world.
What is temperate?
What is heterosis/hybrid vigor, breed complementarity, and avoiding negative consequences of inbreeding?
The two main species of cattle: one is cold-adapted with good carcass characteristics, one is heat-adapted with worse carcass characteristics.
What is Bos taurus and Bos indicus?
The 3 glands making up the HPG Axis that help coordinate reproductive function are _____.
What are the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and gonads?