Plants
A plant that emerges with one seed leaf
Monocotyledon
One animal from Breed A is mated with an Animal from Breed B. (Breed A x Breed B). What type of breeding system is this?
Cross breeding
What does value adding mean?
Means to process or change a product to sell it for a higher price.
What is the name of a journal article we analysed as a class?
Robot milking and relationship with culling rate in dairy cows
Standard deviation is a measure of what?
Spread of the results
A student uses barium sulfate powder and universal indicator to test a soils quality. What is this soil quality and what is the optimum to ensure all nutrients are available for plants.
Soil pH. The optimum is around 5.5 - 6.
I am used to chemically (acid) digest feed. I am present in the monogastric digestive system as the stomach. What is my equal in the ruminant digestive system?
Abosmasum
What is a quality specification for dairy milk?
Butterfat % 3.9 %
Protein % 3.2 %
BMCC <500,000 cells/mL
Name a funding source available for research and development of new agriculture technologies
Government, private business and associations.
What design feature is responsible for managing variables in experiments?
Standardisation
Legume and balls are called nodules.
A disease triangle is made up of the Host, Environment and a Problem Organism. When there is a warm moist environment on a Merino Sheep, what Problem organism can lay eggs that hatch into larvae and eat sheep flesh?
Blow fly (Blowfly Strike)
How is milk processed?
Pasteurisation and homogenisation
What is a patent?
A patent is a legally enforceable right for a device, substance, method or process
I am used as a comparison to understand the effect of the treatment in an experiment. What am i?
Control
1. What hormone is responsible for ripening fruit?
2. What hormone is responsible for growing roots from plant cutting?
1. Ethylene
2. Auxin
What is the process called where a farmer increases the nutrition of feed given to sheep prior to mating?
Flushing
If supply is restricted due to environmental disaster such as a flood, What happens to the price of a product?
Increases
What are Plant Breeders Rights (PBR's)
A PBR protects new plant varieties. It could be for a new variation of flower, vegetable, fruit, tree or plant.
A PBR gives you exclusive rights to:
What is the mean of the following data? 12, 15, 15, 14, 12, 13, 11.
13.14
What component of Integrated pest management (IPM) would most likely cause resistance in pest populations?
Chemical control
Which hormone stimulates the release of an ova from the ovary?
Luteinising hormone
A group of dairy farmers in a district supply their milk to a processing factory. The group of farmers hold shares in the processing factory and make all decisions on marketing. What marketing strategy is this?
Cooperative
Name a technology we evaluate in class?
Could be robotic milking, GPS, NLIS, RFID, Weedseeker...
Valid and reliable experimental design is conditional on the inclusion of 4 components. What are these 4 components?
Control, standardisation, randomisation, replication.