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What does the efficiency of animals mean?

Rate of production, growth and development

Rate of production, milking and feeding

Rate of growth and development

Rate of production

What are the limiting factors?

Managements, age, breed, nutrition and stress

Management, genetics, nutrition, disease/pests and climate

Management, age, nutrition, disease/pests and climate

Management, genetics, nutrition, disease/pests and stress

What is growth?

Increase in weight

Increase in size

Change in proportions with age

Increase in size and weight with age

What is development? (animal)

Change in proportions as the animal ages

Increase in size and weight

Changes that occur as it grows

The growth from the moment the animal reaches puberty onwards

What do animals need food for?

For energy, to regulate body processes, to maintain and build body structures and to store chemical energy for production

For energy, to regulate body processes, to maintain and build body structures and to grow

For energy, to regulate body processes, to produce and to store chemical energy for production

To maintain temperature, to regulate body processes, to maintain and build body structures and to store chemical energy for production

What is one effect of heat stress?

Increased food consumption

Increased fertility

Increased risk of disease

Less food consumed

What animals are unable to sweat properly in humid temperatures?

Sheep

Horses

Cow

Chickens

What is production energy?

Energy lost when an animal produces something

Energy used to feed or raise young

Energy in addition to maintanance energy

Energy used to maintain the body

What do animals use water for?

To maintain body temperature, prevent dehydration and maintain body fluids

To maintain body temperature, transport fluids and maintain body fluids

To help swallow food, transport fluids and maintain body fluids

To stay cool

Other

Please Specify:

What is a monogastric animal?

An animal with four stomachs

An animal with two stomachs

A cow

An animal with one stomach

What is a ruminant?

A herbivore

An animal that only eats grass

An animal with four stomachs

An animal with one stomach

Energy is used to...

Maintain temperature, for muscular use and for production

To move around

For muscular use

For muscular use and for production

Roughages are...

Feeds high in protein

Feeds high in fibre

Feeds high in starch

Hay and chaff

Age, production, climate, disease and palatability all need to be considered when...?

Creating a ration

Treating a disease

Breeding

Planning an animal's production

Purpose of the prostrate?

Maintains body temperature

Secretes hormones

Mixed with sperm in the urethra

Contains sperm

Purpose of scrotum?

Support testes and maintain body temperature

Secrete hormones

Maintain temperature

Contains testes

Purpose of testes?

Production of sperm and secretion of hormones

Contains scrotum

Secretion of hormones

Secretion of sperm

Implantation is when..?

An egg is implanted into a mother

An egg becomes a foetus

An egg becomes an embryo and is attached to the cell wall

An egg becomes an embryo

Fertility is affected by..?

Genetics, nutrition, climate, disease/pests and management

Stress, nutrition, climate, disease/pests and management

Genetics, age, climate, disease/pests and management

Genetics, nutrition, climate, disease/pests and breed

Increase efficiency of reproduction by...?

Detection of heat, removal of infertile animals, control of pests/diseases, well fed, optimum breeding times and decreasing stress

Detection of heat, removal of infertile animals, control of pests/diseases, well fed, breeding in winter and appropriate animal ratios (male to female)

Detection of heat, removal of infertile animals, control of pests/diseases, well fed, optimum breeding times and appropriate animal ratios (male to female)

Detection of heat, cross breeding, control of pests/diseases, well fed, optimum breeding times and appropriate animal ratios (male to female)

What are the two most important hormone glands for reproduction?

Scrotum and testes

Endocrine and ovaries

Testes and ovaries

Gonads and pituitary

Milk composition is affected by...?

Breed, nutrition, disease, age & stress

Breed, nutrition, climate, age & stress

Breed, nutrition, management, age & stress

Breed, genetics, disease, age & stress

What causes milk let down?

Adrenaline

Oxytocin

Alveoli

Release of the placenta

Colostrum contains...?

Immunoglobulins, Vitamin A and D

Immunoglobulins

Antibodies

Vitamins

In postnatal growth, what order do tissues form in?

Brain and nerves, organs, muscle, fat

Brain and nerves, bone, muscle, fat

Brain and nerves, bone, fat, muscle

Brain and nerves, bone, muscle, fat, organs

Primary methods to increase growth:

Hormones, feed additives and genetic engineering/selective breeding

Hormones, feed additives and extra nutrition

Prenatal nutrition

Hormones, feed supplements and genetic engineering/selective breeding

Other

Please Specify:

Genetic engineering is the manipulation of the genetic structure to:

Improve production, isolate a gene or decrease disease

Improve production, isolate a gene or decrease a gene

Improve fertility, isolate a gene or decrease disease

Improve the animal/plant

What are the three breeding systems?

Cross breeding, line breeding and random

Random, cross breeding and inbreeding

Cross breeding, line breeding and inbreeding

Line breeding, line breeding and Random

The primary cause of the disease is...

The pathogen that caused it

A cut or wound

Inadequate nutrition

The circumstances that allowed it to happen

The three primary secondary causes of disease are:

Poor nutrition, hygiene and overcrowding

Poor nutrition, hygiene and injuries

Poor nutrition, stress and overcrowding

Poor nutrition, genetics and overcrowding

The four types of diseases are:

Hereditary, metabolic, metazoal and microbrial

Genetic, metabolic, metazoal and microbial

Hereditary, metabolic, metazoal and microbial

Hereditary, metabolic, microzoal and metabial

Infective diseases can enter the body through the mouth, wounds or through the respiratory system

True

False

Infective diseases can enter the body through the mouth, wounds or through the digestive system

True

False

Parasites are spread by aerial contamination, wounds , direct contact or faeces

False

True

Parasites are spread by aerial contamination, contaminated food, wounds , direct contact or faeces

True

False

The steps of IPM are..?

The three main IPM methods are:

Mechanical, biological and chemical

Mechanical, quarantine and chemical

Eradication, quarantine and vaccination

Biological, chemical and management

What are the five freedoms?

Are photosynthesis and respiration temperature dependant?

Yes

Plants must be able to...

Photosynthesise faster than they can use it up in respiration

Respirate faster than they can use it up in photosythesis

Photosynthesise and respirate at the same speed

Only do one of either photosynthesis or respiration

What do auxins do?

Cause ripening

Cause growth

Cause stell elongation

Inhibit growth

What do Gibberellins do?

Cause flowering

Cause ripening

Cause cell elongation

Case growth

What do cytokinins do?

Promote root growth

Promote stem growth

Cause flowering

Cause ripening

What does Ethylene do?

Cause ripening

Cause flowering

Cause cell elongation

Cause root growth

What does abscisic acid do?

Inhibits growth and ripening

Inhibits growth

Causes growth

Causes growth and ripening

Plants have...?

Vegetative and reproductive phases

Vegetive and reproductive phases

Only reproductive phases

Only vegetative phases

What do each of the types of plant breeding do?

Plant breeding aims to:

Improve plant quality, yield, ability to adapt and protection against pests and diseases

Improve plant quality, production, ability to adapt and protection against pests and diseases

Improve plant quality, yield, stability and protection against pests and diseases

Improve, yield, ability to adapt and protection against pests and diseases

Combination Breeding

Breeding two completely different pure bred lines to create a stronger line