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ELANCO ANIMAL SCIENCE CERTIFICATION
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ELANCO ANIMAL SCIENCE CERTIFICATIONSheep - Answers- The first livestock to be tamed by humans
Vertical Integration - Answers- Management approach in which supply chains are
united through a single owner
What are slaughter cattle evaluated on? - Answers- Yield (cut ability) and quality grades
What are slaughter lambs evaluated on? - Answers- Yield grade
Grades for pork carcasses are determined by - Answers- taking a backfat
measurement
Each species receives its own pricing grid, which - Answers- establishes a set price for
each grade
Artificial insemination - Answers- Injecting semen into the uterus by artificial means
(primary breeding method for dairy cows, turkeys, and pigs)
Parturition - Answers- Process of giving birth
Dorsal - Answers- Back of the body
Ventral - Answers- Belly or underside of the body
Caudal - Answers- Toward or near the tail of the body
Cranial - Answers- Toward/ near head of the body
Proximal - Answers- Structure nearest a point of reference (knee is proximal to ankle)
Distal - Answers- End farthest from point of reference (ankle is distal to knee)
Prehension - Answers- Way an animal gathers food
Mastication - Answers- Process of chewing
What animals have lower teeth and a dental pad? - Answers- Cows, sheep, and goats
Ruminant compartments - Answers- Rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum
What is a reticular groove formed by? - Answers- The muscular fold of the reticulum
"True stomach" of ruminant - Answers- Abomasum
, produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and secreted into the small intestine to
aid in fat digestion - Answers- Bile
Pelleting - Answers- Feed processing method used to ensure the complete diet is in
each bite an animal consumes
Fat soluble vitamins - Answers- Vitamin A, D, E, K
Water soluble vitamins - Answers- Vitamin B and C
Allele - Answers- One of a pair of genes which occupy the same location on
homologous chromosomes
Diploids - Answers- Paired chromosomes in body cells
Gametes - Answers- Sperm or ovum (male and female reproductive cells)
Genes - Answers- DNA segments that serve as the key functional units in hereditary
transmission
Genetics - Answers- The scientific study of heredity and variation
Haploid - Answers- Number of chromosomes in sex cells
Heredity - Answers- Sum of qualities genetically derived from ancestors
Mitosis - Answers- Division of the nucleus of a somatic cell and results in two identical
daughter nuclei
G1 S G2 M - Answers- Mitosis stages
M phase - Answers- Prophase, pro-metaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Meiosis - Answers- Cellular division that produces sex cells
Oogenesis (female) and spermatogenesis (male) - Answers- Other names for meiosis
Meiosis phases - Answers- Prophase 1, Metaphase 1, Anaphase 1, Telophase 1,
Prophase 2, Metaphase 2, Anaphase 2, Telophase 2
ZZ - Answers- Male poultry chromosome pair
ZW - Answers- Female poultry chromosome pair
Pedigree - Answers- Record of an animal's ancestry
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