Livestock Terminology Quiz

What is the term used for adapting an animal to the needs of humans?

• Selection

• Domestication

• Crossbreeding

• Culling

What is the term used for identifying desirable animals for breeding purposes?

• Traits

• Culling

• Selection

• Inbreeding

What term is used to describe animals whose ancestors are of only one breed?

• Grade

• Purebred

• Polled

• Offspring

What is the term for mating animals of different breeds?

• Parturition

• Crossbreeding

• Weaning

• Domestication

What is the process of removing an animal from the herd called?

• Culling

• Selection

• Castrated

• Inbreeding

What is the term for mating animals that are related?

• Crossbreeding

• Selection

• Inbreeding

• Domestication

What are animals that are not purebred often called?

• Sire

• Dam

• Grade

• Polled

What term is used for cattle that do not have horns due to genetics?

• Castrated

• Polled

• Grade

• Traits

What term describes characteristics that can be passed down from parent to offspring?

• Weaning

• Traits

• Selection

• Domestication

What is the term for taking a young animal off milk by removing it from being with its mother?

• Castrated

• Weaning

• Parturition

• Culling