Livestock Breeding

The type of breeding system used by animal producer will depend on the _______ of the operation.

• Finances

• Goals

• Time

• Dedication

If you were to take a registered Angus breed Cow and mate it with a registered Hereford Bull, what type of breeding would that be?

• Straightbreeding

• Crossbreeding

• Inbreeding

• Outcrossing

Advantages of crossbreeding includes: Offspring grow faster, mature quicker, and have the superior traits of each of its parents. These advantages are also known as

• Dominant traits

• Hybrid vigor

• Recessive traits

• Phenotype

The mating of an animal to its relative is called

• Crossbreeding

• Hybrid crossing

• Linebreeding

• Inbreeding

Clones have the exact same:

• Personalities

• Physical appearances

• Intelligence levels

• Genetic material

The process of removing one or more embryos (fertilized eggs) from the reproductive tract of a donor female and transferring them to one or more recipient female.

• cloning

• semen collection

• artificial insemination

• embryo transfer

Breeding close relatives in order to lock in desirable traits. (half-brother/half-sister)

• inbreeding

• linebreeding

• composite

• crossbreeding

Manipulating the females' estrous cycle so they can be bred at about the same time.

• artificial insemination

• embryo transfer

• flock breeding

• synchronization

controls temperature of the testes

• penis
• scrotum
• testicle
• epididymis

produces sperm and testosterone

• testicle
• scrotum
• penis
• vas deferens