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ag tech review second semester
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Agriculture
10th Grade
05/26/2011

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What is the difference between a ruminant and monogastric animal?
Definition
A ruminant animal has four stomachs and a monogastric animal only has one.
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How do poultry digest food?
Definition
swallow it whole, stored in crop, passed to gizzard, ground up then passed to the small intrestine.
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Swine and poultry have what differences in their digestive systems?
Definition
poultry have a gizzard, swine have stomachs.
Term
What system produces milk?
Definition
endocrine/mammory.
Term
what is testosterone?
Definition
the male sex hormone.
Term
females estrus cycle is regulated by what hormone?
Definition
estrogen
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what do genetic engineering, accurate recordkeeping and artificial insemination have in common?
Definition
They are all animal managment technologies.
Term
free martin
Definition
a sexually imperfect female calf (sterile)
Term
pedigree
Definition
record of ancestry
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fetus
Definition
embryo from the time of attachment to the uterine wall until birth.
Term
what is the best way to prevent disease?
Definition
sanitation
Term
the US exports most of its agriculture products to what country?
Definition
Japan
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where do most accidents occur?
Definition
at home.
Term
what is the purpose of the EPA
Definition
to protect the environment.
Term
What is the purpose of cartilage and ligaments?
Definition
They both attach bones together.
Term
what are the four stomachs of a ruminant animal?
Definition
rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum.
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conformation
Definition
the shape or structure of something.
Term
Define prolific and what livestock animal is considered prolific?
Definition
Producing many offspring. Sheep.
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Livestock waste can be recycled as what?
Definition
Fertilizer
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