JOLT EDU Course for Genetics and EPD's

Match the following

• A castrated male bovine

• Sire

• An uncastrated male bovine

• Dam

• A mature female bovine

• Cow

• The male parent of a bovine

• Steer

• The female parent of a bovine

• Bull

What is a breeding of cattle where two different breeds are crossed a singular time?

• Composite

• Baldy

• Crossbred

• Comercial

Match the following

• The genetic characteristics of an animal

• Polled

• An infertile heifer calf that is a twin to a bull

• Horned

• The physical characteristics of an animal

• Freemartin

• The presence of horns on cattle

• Genotype

• The lack of horns on cattle

• Phenotype

A modern tool that became popular in the last several decades to highlight the genetic characteristics of individual animals.

• EPDs

• Heritability

• Livestock Evaluation

• Selection Differential

Predicts the presence of intramuscular fat.

• Yearling EPD

• Maternal EPD

• Marbling EPD

• Ribeye Area EPD

The desired shape, form, type of animal (how it stands, how it moves).

• Efficiency

• Performance

• Conformation

• EPD

The quantity available for retail meat cuts from the carcass. (Used to express the quality of the beef carcass)

• Cutability

• Dressing Percentage

• Carcass

The desirable presence of intramuscular fat is called...

• Muscular fat

• Marbling

• Cutability

• Grass Fed

Match the following

• Chianina

• 
• Angus

• 
• Shorthorn

• 
• Hereford

• 
• Charolais

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Match the following

• Polled Hereford

• 
• Hereford

• 
• Gelbvieh

• 
• Limousin

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4