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AVS145 Exam 1
UMO
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2012

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Term
What do animals do for people?
Definition
  • work
  • fuel
  • food
  • clothing
  • pharmaceutical products
  • companionship/recreation/entertainment
Term
What do horses do for people?
Definition
generates more than 15 billion/year
Term
3 types of sheep and goat industry operations
Definition
  • purebred breeder
  • commercial market lamb producers
  • commercial feedlot operator
Term
3 types of pig industry operations
Definition
  • feeder pig producer
  • feeder pig finisher
  • farrow to finish
Term
2 types of cow-calf operations
Definition
  • commercial producer
  • purebred breeders
Term
3 types of beef industry operations
Definition
  • cow-calf
  • stockers
  • feed-lot
Term
What organs are major parts of giving birth?
Definition
  • ovaries
  • uterus
  • cervix
  • vagina
Term
What is estrous cycle?
Definition
  • the time when female is receptive for breeding
  • ovulation occurs at or just after estrus
Term
gestation is?
Definition
pregnancy
Term
What happens at birth?
Definition
  • uterine contractions (small) begin
  • cervix must dilate
  • uterine contractions increase
  • fetus delivered
  • placenta delivered
  • uterus involutes
Term
Benefits of genetic engineering?
Definition
  • increased growth
  • desired color
  • better behavior
Term
2 types of cell division?
Definition
  • mitosis - cell replication
  • meiosis - each sperm and ova have 1/2 corrrect # chromosomes
Term
What 3 things genetic engineering contributed?
Definition
  • BST - to increase milk production in dairy cows
  • Insulin - for human diabetics
  • Flavor Savr Tomato - more ripe and longer shelf life
Term
Digestive tract of poultry
Definition
  • mouth, esophogus
  • crop - feed is stored
  • proventriculus - glandular stomach, secretes HCl
  • gizzard - grinds feed
  • sm. intestine
  • lg. intestine
  • cloaca
Term
Cecum
Definition
is a compartment of animals that eat more plants
Term
What are two different types of digestion?
Definition
  • monogastric - one stomach
  • ruminant - 4 compartments
Term
What 3 types of animals were included in horse industry?
Definition
  • horses
  • mules
  • donkeys
Term
What 4 products produced by sheep and goat industry?
Definition
  • fibers
  • milk
  • meat
  • young
Term
What are 6 major parts of the female reproductive system?
Definition
  • ovary
  • infundibulum
  • uerus
  • cervix
  • vagina
  • vulva
Term
What are 3 parts of male reproductive system located in scrotum?
Definition
  • testes
  • epididymus
  • Leydig cells?
Term
What are males 3 accessary glands?
Definition
  • seminal vesicles
  • prostate
  • Cowper's gland
Term
Which animal has largest/shortest gestation?
Definition
  • longest - cows
  • shortest - rabbit
Term
Which animal has longest/shortest estrous cycles?
Definition
  • longest - dog
  • shortest - rabbit
Term
2 major maing systems and 2 examples of each
Definition
  • inbreeding - intensive & line breeding
  • outbreeding - species cross & cross breeding
Term
Examples of Simple Inheritance, Dominant/recessive, and Quantitative
Definition
  • Simple - coat color
  • Dominant - horns
  • Quantitative - growth rate (more than 1 gene affects trait
Term
Amino acids sythesized by animal or not and examples of both
Definition
  • animal (nonessential) - alanine, proline, cystine
  • not (essential) - phenylalanine, methionine, tryptophan
Term
Fat Soluble Vitamins
Definition
  • A
  • D
  • K
Term
Water-soluble vitamins
Definition
  • B1
  • B2
  • B6
Term
What are 3 volatile fatty acids?
Definition
  • acetic
  • propionic
  • butyric
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