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Total questions: 150
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Choose the term that matches the definition: An unforeseen and unplanned event.
Accident
Anesthetic
Antigen
Bloat
Choose the term that matches the definition: A condition in which there is too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide in the blood.
Acidosis
Anemia
Anestrus
Antiseptic
Choose the term that matches the definition: Requires antibodies to be present in the blood and is acquired after exposure to an antigen-producing organism.
Active immunity
Acquired immunity
Antibodies
Antitoxins
Choose the term that matches the definition: Resistance to disease developed either actively or passively.
Acquired immunity
Active immunity
Antigen
Antiseptic
Choose the term that matches the definition: Components added to feed that have no nutritive value, such as antibiotics.
Additives
Antibiotics
Balancing Rations
Biosecurity
Choose the term that matches the definition: Each gene has two parts, represented by either a capital or lowercase letter.
Alleles
Antibodies
Blastocyst
Breed
Choose the term that matches the definition: An allergic reaction that may occur when an animal is repeatedly injected with a specific drug or a drug similar to one previously administered.
Anaphylaxis
Antigen
Antiseptic
Anesthetic
Choose the term that matches the definition: Red blood cell deficiency.
Anemia
Acidosis
Bloat
Castration
Choose the term that matches the definition: A drug that produces insensibility to pain.
Anesthetic
Antiseptic
Caustics
Additives
Choose the term that matches the definition: A condition in which the female does not cycle due to insufficient hormonal stimulation.
Anestrus
Buller
Breed
Blastocyst
Choose the term that matches the definition: Inspection conducted before the death of an animal.
Antemortem inspection
Biosecurity
Branding
Cash Markets
Choose the term that matches the definition: The normal presentation of birth in which both front feet are up, with one extended a little further and the nose positioned between the feet.
Anterior presentation
Breech Birth
Breed
Bloat
Choose the term that matches the definition: Proteins in the blood that develop in response to the presence of an antigen, foreign substance, or disease in the body.
Antibodies
Antigen
Antitoxins
Antiseptic
Choose the term that matches the definition: A toxin or foreign substance that stimulates an immune response.
Antigen
Antibody
Antitoxin
Additive
Choose the term that matches the definition: An agent that destroys or severely inhibits microorganisms that cause disease.
Antiseptic
Anesthetic
Caustics
Castration
Choose the term that matches the definition: Substances that counteract a specific toxin or poison.
Antitoxins
Antigens
Antibodies
Additives
Choose the term that matches the definition: A breeding technique in which an insemination gun or instrument is used to deposit semen into the reproductive tract of the female.
Artificial Insemination
Branding
Breed
Boller
Choose the term that matches the definition: The process of providing all the nutrients necessary for an animal in a cost-effective manner.
Balancing Rations
Additives
Biosecurity
Cash Markets
Choose the term that matches the definition: Device used to place a pill in an animal's throat.
Balling Gun
Bolus
Cecum
Breech Birth
Choose the term that matches the definition: Precautions taken to protect against the spread of lethal or harmful organisms or diseases.
Biosecurity
Antemortem inspection
Antiseptic
Branding
Choose the term that matches the definition: The embryonic stage in which there are two distinct groups of cells.
Blastocyst
Bloat
Breed
Cecum
Choose the term that matches the definition: Rapid fermentation in the rumen causes excessive gas production.
Bloat
Acidosis
Anemia
Bolus
Choose the term that matches the definition: A large pill used for dosing animals.
Bolus
Balling Gun
Additives
Caustics
Choose the term that matches the definition: A practice in which a permanent mark is made on an animal's hide or flesh.
Branding
Breed
Biosecurity
Castration
Choose the term that matches the definition: When an animal is born with its back or hind feet coming out of the birth canal first.
Breech Birth
Anterior presentation
Birth defect
Buller
Choose the term that matches the definition: A group of animals that, through selection and breeding, share the same characteristics.
Breed
Branding
Buller
Caponize
Choose the term that matches the definition: A cow that has been in heat for a long time.
Buller
Breed
Bloat
Blastocyst
Choose the term that matches the definition: castration of a male fowl.
Caponize
Castration
Carnivores
Caustics
Choose the term that matches the definition: Animals that eat primarily meat.
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Insectivores
Choose the term that matches the definition: Markets where participants buy and sell commodities for cash and immediate delivery.
Cash Markets
Futures Markets
Auctions
Retail Markets
Choose the term that matches the definition: Removal of the testicles of a male animal.
Castration
Caponize
Caustics
Branding
Choose the term that matches the definition: Substances that burn or destroy tissue by chemical reaction.
Caustics
Antiseptic
Anesthetic
Additives
Choose the term that matches the definition: A pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestines.
Cecum
Cecal valve
Rumen
Cloaca
Which term matches the definition: The basic unit of life?
Cell
Chromosomes
Egg
Tissue culture
Which term matches the definition: Strong, tough muscle that blocks the fetus from the outside world until it is time for birth?
Cervix
Copulation
Colostrum
Contagious
Which term matches the definition: Threadlike structures within the nucleus of the cell that contain genetic information passed from one generation to the next?
Chromosomes
Cell
Crossover
Cryopreservation
Which term matches the definition: Male animal placed with the herd after artificial insemination to ensure the maximum number of females have settled?
Clean up male
Copulation
Dominant hand
Docking
Which term matches the definition: First milk from a mother?
Colostrum
Creep Feed
Concentrates
Cutability
Which term matches the definition: Life cycle stages of an external parasite that consist of egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
Complete Metamorphosis
Crossover
Contagious
Digestion
Which term matches the definition: Stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure?
Compression Bandage
Disinfectants
Dubbing
Docking
Which term matches the definition: Feedstuff that is low in fiber and relatively high in digestible nutrients, such as cereal grains?
Concentrates
Creep Feed
Colostrum
Debris
Which term matches the definition: working to develop behaviors in animals?
Conditioning
Copulation
Complete Metamorphosis
Disease
Which term matches the definition: Measured by estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by individuals?
Consumer tax price
Cutability
Digestible energy
Dominant hand
Which term matches the definition: Transmissible to other animals?
Contagious
Corrosive
Debris
Disease
Which term matches the definition: physical act of mating?
Copulation
Conditioning
Cervix
Dystocia
Which term matches the definition: Materials that tend to eat away or consume an acid or drug?
Corrosive
Disinfectants
Concentrates
Debris
Which term matches the definition: Additional feed for young animals that supplements the nutrients provided by mother's milk?
Creep Feed
Colostrum
Concentrates
Complete Metamorphosis
Which term matches the definition: Mixing up certain portions of genetic material during meiosis?
Crossover
Chromosomes
Cryopreservation
Copulation
Which term matches the definition: Technique used to freeze semen?
Cryopreservation
Crossover
Cutability
Dubbing
Which term matches the definition: Lack of testicular descent into the scrotum?
Cryptorchidism
Docking
Delayed breeding
Disease
Which term matches the definition: Proportion of lean, sellable meat provided by a carcass?
Cutability
Digestible energy
Consumer tax price
Debeaking
Which term matches the definition: removal of the tip of the upper mandible of poultry?
Debeaking
Dubbing
Docking
Dehorning
Which term matches the definition: Loose material?
Debris
Disease
Disinfectants
Concentrates
Which term matches the definition: The process of removing horns and preventing the growth of horns?
Dehorning
Docking
Dubbing
Debeaking
Which term matches this definition: When an animal does not cycle within the proper amount of time for breeding?
Delayed breeding
Diestrus
Dystocia
Digestion
Which term matches the definition: The stage of estrous in which the corpus luteum produces hormones that stimulate the uterus to prepare for pregnancy?
Diestrus
Copulation
Embryo Transfer
Ejaculation
Which term matches the definition: Energy remaining from feed after fecal energy is lost?
Digestible energy
Digestion
Cutability
Consumer tax price
Which term matches the definition: Reduction in particle size of feed so that the feed becomes soluble and can pass across the intestinal wall into the vascular or lymphatic system?
Digestion
Digestible energy
Concentrates
Disinfectants
Which term matches the definition: A condition or disorder with recognizable signs and often a known cause?
Disease
Diseases
Debris
Dominant hand
Which term matches the definition: Infectious agents that result in decreased health in living things?
Diseases
Disinfectants
Debris
Docking
Which term matches the definition: materials that destroy infective agents such as bacteria and viruses?
Disinfectants
Corrosive
Concentrates
Debeaking
Which term matches the definition: removal of the tail of an animal?
Docking
Dubbing
Dehorning
Debeaking
Which term matches the definition: Hand favored or used most often?
Dominant hand
Clean up male
Copulation
Digestion
Which term matches the definition: Clipping of the comb on poultry?
Dubbing
Docking
Debeaking
Dehorning
Which term matches the definition: birthing difficulties?
Dystocia
Delayed breeding
Diestrus
Cervix
Which term matches the definition: Female gamete?
Egg
Cell
Embryo Transfer
Ejaculation
Which term matches the definition: Dispelling of sperm from the pelvic urethra?
Ejaculation
Copulation
Cryopreservation
Complete Metamorphosis
Which term matches the definition: Use of drugs by non-veterinarians in ways not specified on the medication label to treat animals?
Extralabel Drug Use
Disinfectants
Consumer tax price
Conditioning
Which term matches the definition: A breeding technique in which embryos from one female are collected and then transferred into the reproductive tract of other females?
Embryo Transfer
Copulation
Clean up male
Creep Feed
Intersection of the supply and demand curves; the point at which consumers and producers agree on a price.
Equilibrium price
Forward contracts
Future Contracts
Gross energy
Finish
Gate that can be used easily and quickly to exit a dangerous area.
Escape gate
Flight-zone
Hand mating
Hazard
Exsanguination
Female sex hormone
Estrogen
Estrus
Fertility
Gametes
Genotype
Process a female animal's body undergoes to prepare itself for reproduction; heat cycle
Estrous cycle
Estrus
Gestation Period
Fertility
Hand mating
Reproductive tool that involves manipulating the estrous cycles of females so they can be bred within a short period of time.
Estrus synchronization
Hand mating
Fertility
Gestation Period
Growing ration
Stage of the estrous cycle when ovulation occurs
Estrus
Estrous cycle
Estrogen
Fertilization
Fetus
Study of how animals behave in their natural habitat.
Ethology
Genetics
Genotype
Hazard
Germicidal
Process in which all internal organs are removed from the body cavity.
Evisceration
Exsanguination
Fertilization
Founder
Foot Rot
Process of bleeding an animal.
Exsanguination
Evisceration
Fertilization
Flank streaking
External Parasite
Parasite that lives outside an animal.
External Parasite
Foot Rot
Germicidal
Gametes
Fattening Ration
Ration that supplies nutrients to support not only maintenance and growth, but also the storage of energy in the form of fat.
Fattening Ration
Growing ration
Flushing Ration
Feed Additives
Feedstuff
Components added to feed for specific purposes.
Feed Additives
Feedstuff
Fattening Ration
Growing Ration
Gross Energy
Any of the constituent nutrients of an animal ration.
Feedstuff
Feed Additives
Fattening Ration
Growing ration
Gross energy
Ability of a male or female to successfully fertilize an egg and produce offspring
Fertility
Fertilization
Estrogen
Gametes
Fetus
Moment when gametes join to form one complete cell
Fertilization
Fertility
Gametes
Gestation Period
Genotype
Developed embryo that has attached to the uterus of the female.
Fetus
Gametes
Genotype
Gestation Period
Founder
Term used to describe the amount of fat on an animal.
Finish
Fattening Ration
Flank streaking
Forward contracts
Hazard
Indication of marbling in sheep
Flank streaking
Finish
Foot Rot
Founder
Freemartin Syndrome
Space that, if violated by someone, will cause the animal to flee out of instinct.
Flight-zone
Escape gate
Hazard
Ethology
Hand mating
Ration given to females prior to breeding to increase body weight.
Flushing Ration
Fattening Ration
Growing Ration
Feed Additives
Feedstuff
Inflammation that affects the tissues between the toes and can be infectious.
Foot Rot
Founder
External Parasite
Germicidal
Hazard
Markets where participants buy and sell commodities at a set price for delivery on a specified future date.
Forward contracts
Future Contracts
Equilibrium price
Genetics
Gross energy
Occurs when animals overeat grains or lush pastures
Founder
Foot Rot
Flank streaking
Fattening Ration
Freemartin Syndrome
Frequent form of sexual abnormality found in cattle where a female is born twin to a male
Freemartin Syndrome
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Hand mating
Fertility
Similar to cash markets; the producer buys and sells contracts rather than the commodity itself.
Future Contracts
Forward contracts
Equilibrium price
Genotype
Gross energy
Sex cells
Gametes
Genotype
Genetics
Germicidal
Gestation period
An animal's genetic makeup.
Genotype
Genetics
Gametes
Gross energy
Heterozygous
Amount of energy found in feed.
Gross energy
Fattening Ration
Growing ration
Forward contracts
Gestation Period
Branch of biology that deals with the study of genes and how traits are passed from parent to offspring.
Genetics
Genotype
Germicidal
Gestation Period
Hazard
Inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms.
Germicidal
Evisceration
Exsanguination
Foot Rot
External Parasite
The time a female is pregnant from conception to birth.
Gestation Period
Estrous cycle
Fetus
Fertilization
Growing ration
Ration that provides enough nutrients to support the growth and development of animals.
Growing ration
Fattening Ration
Flushing Ration
Feed Additives
Feedstuff
Type of natural service mating that requires more labor and management because the female is brought to the male for service.
Hand mating
Estrus synchronization
Fertility
Ethology
Hazard
Situation that poses a threat to life, health, property, or the environment.
Hazard
Flight-zone
Escape gate
Foot Rot
Founder
Gene pair that has one dominant and one recessive.
Heterozygous
Homozygous
Genotype
Genetics
Freemartin Syndrome
Gene pair that has either two dominant or two recessive genes.
Homozygous
Heterozygous
Genotype
Genetics
Gametes
Source of food for a parasite
Host
Vector
Carrier
Reservoir
Lamb less than 3 months of age at slaughter that is born and marketed out of season.
Hothouse lamb
Spring lamb
Suckling lamb
Feeder lamb
Process in which an animal is rendered unconscious
Immobilization
Euthanasia
Stunning
Sedation
Resistance to disease and infection
Immunity
Homeostasis
Tolerance
Resistance genes
Measurement based on a scale of 100 is often used to compare an animal's performance to other animals.
Index
Ratio
Average
Rank
Causing or transmitting disease.
Infectious
Aseptic
Benign
Sterile
Disease caused by microorganisms that get inside animals
Infectious disease
Metabolic disorder
Genetic defect
Nutritional deficiency
Soft membrane lining of the hoof
Laminae
Frog
Sole
Coronary band
Economic model used to determine the pricing of a product
Law of supply and demand
Cost-plus pricing
Price skimming
Market capitalization
Behaviors that are conditioned by handlers
Learned behavior
Innate behavior
Social imprinting
Habituation only
This provides energy and is also referred to as lipids?
Fats
Proteins
Minerals
Vitamins
When a cow has an enlarged paunch on the left side in front of the hip bone, followed by distention on the right side and difficulty breathing, what non-infectious disease does the cow likely have?
Bloat
Hardware disease
Acidosis
Milk fever
Is high-quality pasture accessible only to young animals?
Creep grazing
Rotational grazing
Strip grazing
Mob grazing
A vertical marking that extends the length of the face, is of medium width, and is relatively uniform?
Blaze
Star
Stripe
Snip
This breed of cattle is one of the most widely known breeds due to marketing efforts.
Angus
Hereford
Charolais
Simmental
Which nutrient is needed in small amounts to maintain specific body functions, such as tooth and bone formation?
Vitamins
Carbohydrates
Water
Fats
A ration that supports an animal's normal body functions without supporting growth?
Maintenance ration
Fattening ration
Growth ration
Production ration
There are three factors in purchasing feedstuffs. What is the second factor?
Quantity of feed to buy
Cost per unit of nutrient
Availability of storage
Palatability
The dairy breed that originated in Switzerland and is brown in color, ranging from light to dark, including grayish to black brown.
Brown Swiss
Jersey
Guernsey
Ayrshire
This pattern of Appaloosa is very common, where the horse is a dark color with a blanket of white hair over the hips and croup area.
Blanket pattern
Leopard pattern
Snowflake pattern
Roan pattern
This goat is primarily raised for mohair fiber, with less emphasis on meat.
Angora
Boer
Nubian
LaMancha
This common livestock handling injury is caused by sudden movement of a rope through an unprotected hand.
Rope burns
Puncture wounds
Frostbite
Sunburn
The reduction in particle size of feed so that it becomes soluble and can pass across the intestinal wall into the vascular or lymphatic system?
Digestion
Absorption
Assimilation
Metabolism
Trim the outside hoof as short as possible and then trim the inside hoof longer on the rear legs to help correct this defect.
Cow-hocked
Splay-footed
Toed-in
Club foot
If a bull does not pass the breeding soundness examination, how should he be classified?
Deferred
Unsound
Culled immediately
Questionable
A group of animals that exhibit the same characteristics?
Breed
Species
Strain
Family
A gene pair consisting of one dominant and one recessive gene?
Heterozygous
Homozygous dominant
Homozygous recessive
Codominant
Which animal requires the most space for shelter?
Mature cattle
Hogs
Sheep
Goats
A ration that supplies nutrients to support not only maintenance and growth, but also the storage of energy in the form of fat?
Fattening ration
Maintenance ration
Lactation ration
Starter ration
This dairy breed is the most popular breed of dairy cow in the United States, with colors of black and white or red and white.
Holstein
Guernsey
Brown Swiss
Milking Shorthorn
What is the treatment for an animal in anaphylactic shock?
Injection of epinephrine
Administration of antibiotics
Oral electrolytes
Topical antiseptic
Who is credited with starting the first herd of pigs in North America?
Hernando de Soto
Christopher Columbus
John Smith
Hernán Cortés
What are the physical characteristics of an organism?
Phenotype
Genotype
Karyotype
Allele
What are the three primary restraining tools used for surgeries and foot trimming?
Mechanical
Physical
Chemical
Thermal
If the animal appears lifeless, a resuscitator can be used to force air into the ?
Lungs
Stomach
Sinuses
Rumen
For a bull to pass a BSE, the animal must have a normal physical examination and meet minimum requirements for sperm morphology, sperm motility, and?
Scrotal circumference
Age at puberty
Body condition score
Penile length
When a cow is in the first stage of parturition, how long could it take for the cow to start giving birth?
Within 24 hours
Within 2 hours
Within 72 hours
Within 1 week
Condensed milk was a major food source during which historical event?
Civil War
World War I
Great Depression
Revolutionary War
This is a government in-house research agency that is constantly seeking new ways to improve agriculture.
Agriculture Research Services (ARS)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This breed of horse is known for running at speeds of up to 35–40 miles per hour. It is a tall, leanly muscled horse.
Thoroughbred
Quarter Horse
Arabian
Standardbred
Which breeding practice allows females to produce more offspring than they would normally have in their lifetime?
Embryo transfer
Artificial insemination
Linebreeding
Natural service
This common livestock handling injury is caused by kicks and being stepped on.
Bruises and lacerations
Rope burns
Heat stress
Eye strain
What is the most popular part of the chicken sold in Asia, where it is used in soups?
Chicken feet
Chicken breast
Chicken wings
Chicken thighs
Sus vittatus is a pig from where?
East Asia
Europe
North America
Africa
This riding event involves hounds tracking and chasing foxes while horses and riders follow.
Fox hunting
Dressage
Eventing
Polo
