Anatomy of Plants
Plant Structures
Bedding Plant Production
Animal Welfare
Animal ID Systems
100

Proteins which assist chemical reactions in living cells

What is an enzyme?

100

The type of root system that grass has.

What is a fibrous root system?

100

Plant that completes its life cycle in one year or less, but the term also is applied to any bedding plant replaced on a seasonal basis.

What is an annual?

100

The ability of an animal to cope with the conditions in which it lives.

What is animal welfare?

100

This is a disadvantage of ear tagging.

What is it can be ripped from the ear?

200

Embryos with two cotyledons

What is a dicot?

200

This describes the anther.

What is bears pollen?

200

This is crucial for successful plant growth.

What is a healthy, well developed root system?

200

Age of a pig when tails can be docked.

What is 2 weeks?

200

The brand placed here in hot iron and freeze branding

Where is the rump?

300

Small, leaf-like appendages at the base of the petiole.

What is the stipule?

300

The leaf’s structure at the flower base, protects young buds and all together is known as the calyx.

What is the sepal?

300

This is the ideal air temperature for the germination of seeds.

What is 65-70 degrees?

300

 This is an industrialized system of breeding, raising, and harvesting animals to be used for human consumption and other animal products.

What is animal agriculture?

300

CVI is short for this.

What is Certificate of Veterinary Inspection?

400

The part of the stem that transports sugars.

What is the phloem?

400

Base of the pistil and matures to become fruit

What is the ovary?

400

Major pests of bedding plants.

What are cucumber beetles, aphids, snails and slugs?

400

Jim owns a swine operation in Texas and is preparing to load a group of pigs to be transported to the slaughter facility to be harvested. It is a hot summer day; therefore, Jim should do this before loading the pigs in the trailer.

What is shower the pigs with cold water?

400

Neck chains are most commonly used in this industry.

What is the dairy cattle industry?

500

Specialized part of a cell which has a specific function

What is an organelle?

500

Extracts water and nutrients from the soil in a taproot system.

What are lateral roots?

500

The difference between daytime and nighttime air temperatures in plants.

What is 10-15 degrees?

500

Robert owns a sheep operation in south Texas and many of his sheep graze on his 248 acre lot. This lot does not have an abundance of grass or water. What should Robert do to meet the daily nutrition requirements for his flock of sheep?

What is put out food and water?

500

This is used to chill the branding iron in freeze branding.

What is liquid nitrogen?