Nutrition
This is a substance or group of substances that aid in the support of life
What is a nutrient
This breed is the fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle and the American bison
What is Beefalo
What are the two hormones that the females produce in the uterus
What is Estrogen and Progesterone
This system cause longer lasting and slower changes to the body?
What is the endocrine system
These pest cause the most disease in livestock
What is flies
These are the two main feed groups in life stock
What is Roughage and Concentrate
This breed was were nearly erased by crossbreeding by 1900
What is Texas Longhorn
What are the two male hormones
What is Testosterone and Follicle stimulating hormone
This system is responsible for causing rapid changes or adjustments within the body?
What is the nervous system
This disease is noticed by patches of wool loss and lesions on the skin
What is Scrapie
Name three types roughage's
What is Alfalfa, Rice straw, Almond hulls...etc
This breed was brought to America from Holland in the 1850s
What is Holstein
What part is responsible for storing sperm and transporting it to vas deferens
What is the epididymis
Many species (cattle, goats, sheep and many more) have this digestive system
What is ruminant digestive system
This disease was first discovered in 1875
Name three types of Concentrates
What is Corn, Soybeans, earthworm meal.. etc
This breed was not imported into the U.S. until 1971, from Canada
What is Limousin
This hormone causes uterine contraction during estrus and also during parturition.
What is oxytocin
This system is responsible for filtering the blood and excreting the waste products
What is the Urinary system
Commonly called Mad Cow Disease
What is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
This is the name of the science that process the intake of feed and utilizes it for energy and other metabolic tasks?
What is Nutrition
The breed is known for the hump on their back and long floppy ears and is solid gray or solid red.
What is Brahman
This organ's name means neck in Latin
What is cervix
These systems are controlled by the brain
What is respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems.
This causes Scrapie, Mad Cow disease in animals and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
What is prions