WorksheetsJOLT EDU Course for Genetics and EPD's
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 10mins
Bull
An uncastrated male bovine
Steer
A castrated male bovine
Sire
The male parent of a bovine
Dam
The female parent of a bovine
Cow
A mature female bovine
What is a breeding of cattle where two different breeds are crossed a singular time?
Composite
Baldy
Crossbred
Comercial
Phenotype
The physical characteristics of an animal
Genotype
The genetic characteristics of an animal
Polled
The lack of horns on cattle
Horned
The presence of horns on cattle
Freemartin
An infertile heifer calf that is a twin to a bull
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
Angus
Hereford
Shorthorn
Chianina
Charolais
Match the following
Gelbvieh
Limousin
Hereford
Polled Hereford
True or False: Male Cattle are the only ones with horns.
True
False
