COMPREHENSIVE ANIMAL SCIENCE QUESTIONS FOR LEA BOARD EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

COMPREHENSIVE ANIMAL SCIENCE QUESTIONS FOR
LEA BOARD EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. What is the economic utility derived from animals?
Answer:
Food, protection, power, medicine, pets, sports, research, clothing, and aesthetic use.

Question:
2. What is the scientific name for cattle?
Answer:
Bos taurus.

Question:
3. What is the scientific name for buffalo?
Answer:
Bubalus bubalis.

Question:
4. What is the scientific name for sheep?
Answer:
Ovis aries.

Question:
5. What is the scientific name for goat?
Answer:
Capra hircus.

Question:
6. What is the scientific name for pigs?
Answer:
Sus scrofa.

Question:
7. What is the scientific name for horse?
Answer:
Equus caballus.

Question:
8. What is the scientific name for chicken?
Answer:
Gallus gallus.

,Question:
9. What is the scientific name for mallard duck?
Answer:
Anas platyrhynchos.

Question:
10. What is the scientific name for muscovy duck?
Answer:
Cairina moschata.

Question:
11. What is the scientific name for goose?
Answer:
Anser domesticus.

Question:
12. What is the scientific name for turkey?
Answer:
Meleagris gallopavo.

Question:
13. What is the scientific name for pigeon?
Answer:
Columba livia.

Question:
14. What is the scientific name for guinea fowl?
Answer:
Numida meleagris.

Question:
15. What is a bull?
Answer:
Male breeding ox of any age.

Question:
16. What is a bull calf?
Answer:
Young male calf under one year of age.

Question:
17. What is a bullock?
Answer:
Usually a stag for draft purposes.

,Question:
18. What is a calf?
Answer:
Young ox of either sex, under one year of age.

Question:
19. What are cattle?
Answer:
Domesticated bovine animals.

Question:
20. What is a cow?
Answer:
Mature female ox, one that has given birth.

Question:
21. What is a carabull?
Answer:
Male carabao.

Question:
22. What is a caraheifer?
Answer:
Young female carabao under three years of age, usually one that has not yet given birth.

Question:
23. What is a heifer?
Answer:
Young female ox under the age of three years, usually one that has not yet given birth.

Question:
24. What is a proven sire?
Answer:
Bull about whom one has sufficient unselected information to indicate his transmitting ability.

Question:
25. What is an ox?
Answer:
Ruminant member of the bovine family, or sometimes the male used for draft purposes.

Question:
26. What is a stag?
Answer:
Male ox castrated after sexual maturity.

, Question:
27. What is a steer?
Answer:
Male ox castrated before sexual maturity.

Question:
28. What is a broodmare?
Answer:
A female horse used for breeding purposes.

Question:
29. What is a colt?
Answer:
Young male horse usually up to the age of three.

Question:
30. What is equitation?
Answer:
Horsemanship; the art of riding on horseback.

Question:
31. What is a filly?
Answer:
Young female horse usually up to the age of three.

Question:
32. What is a foal?
Answer:
Young horse of either sex below one year of age.

Question:
33. What is a gelding?
Answer:
Horse which was castrated while young.

Question:
34. What is a mare?
Answer:
Mature female horse.

Question:
35. What is a ridgling?
Answer:
Stallion with only one testis or none in its scrotum.