ANS 150 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Avg. recommended daily calorie/protein intake - Answers - 2,350 cals; 50g protein
Food Desert - Answers - when one lives more than a mile from a grocery store and
don't ave access to car or public transportation
Homeopathy - Answers - natural/alternative treatment for medical problems
Retrospective data - Answers - Survey taken after
Prospective data - Answers - Before and after (control/variable)
Gross income for food/fiber animals - Answers - ~$86 billion
Gross income for companion animals - Answers - ~$44 billion
Classifying animal behaviors - Answers - behavioral mechanism & biological need
Behavioral mechanism - Answers - how an animal knows to do something
Biological need - Answers - what the animal gains from the behavior
Habituation - Answers - lack of response to a repeated stimulus; learned behavior
Conditioning - Answers - association between a behavioral response and a given
stimulus; learned behavior
Care-giving behaviors - Answers - giving help
Care-soliciting behaviors - Answers - asking for help
Ethology - Answers - scientific study of animal behavior
Cereals - Answers - seed portion of a plant (grain)
High energy/low fiber food source - Answers - cereals
Roughages/forages - Answers - leaves/stems of plant
Low energy/high fiber food source - Answers - roughages/forages
Digestion - Answers - reduction of particle size
, Mechanical digestion - Answers - chewing and gut motility
Chemical digestion - Answers - acidic breakdown
Enzymatic digestion - Answers - biological cleavage of food
Rumen - Answers - contains microbes with cellulase to digest feed enzymatically and
break it down
Reticulum - Answers - doorway food enters/leaves stomach (chewing cud)
Omasum - Answers - has many folds that help with mechanical digest
Abomasum - Answers - "true stomach"
Crop - Answers - in avians; where food is stored and digested enzymatically
Gizzard - Answers - in avians; mechanically reduces particle size
Heritability - Answers - The proportion of variation in phenotype that is due to the
variation in genotype
Female organs in parturition - Answers - uterus, cervix, vagina, vulva
Cow, goat, sheep ovaries - Answers - round in shape
Mare ovaries - Answers - kidney shaped
Sow ovaries - Answers - shaped like a bunch of grapes
Follicles - Answers - blister-like; either die or ovulate
Corpus Luteum - Answers - big, vascular; formed from tissue after follicle has ovulated
Corpus Albicans - Answers - small, white; scar tissue left behind after CL regresses
Oviduct - Answers - near ovary; fertilization happens here
Uterus - Answers - responsible for maintenance of pregnancy
Cervix - Answers - thick, muscular; isolates uterus from external environment during
pregnancy
Vagina - Answers - protects uterus from bacterial invasion; site of semen deposition
Vulva - Answers - external female genitalia
Avg. recommended daily calorie/protein intake - Answers - 2,350 cals; 50g protein
Food Desert - Answers - when one lives more than a mile from a grocery store and
don't ave access to car or public transportation
Homeopathy - Answers - natural/alternative treatment for medical problems
Retrospective data - Answers - Survey taken after
Prospective data - Answers - Before and after (control/variable)
Gross income for food/fiber animals - Answers - ~$86 billion
Gross income for companion animals - Answers - ~$44 billion
Classifying animal behaviors - Answers - behavioral mechanism & biological need
Behavioral mechanism - Answers - how an animal knows to do something
Biological need - Answers - what the animal gains from the behavior
Habituation - Answers - lack of response to a repeated stimulus; learned behavior
Conditioning - Answers - association between a behavioral response and a given
stimulus; learned behavior
Care-giving behaviors - Answers - giving help
Care-soliciting behaviors - Answers - asking for help
Ethology - Answers - scientific study of animal behavior
Cereals - Answers - seed portion of a plant (grain)
High energy/low fiber food source - Answers - cereals
Roughages/forages - Answers - leaves/stems of plant
Low energy/high fiber food source - Answers - roughages/forages
Digestion - Answers - reduction of particle size
, Mechanical digestion - Answers - chewing and gut motility
Chemical digestion - Answers - acidic breakdown
Enzymatic digestion - Answers - biological cleavage of food
Rumen - Answers - contains microbes with cellulase to digest feed enzymatically and
break it down
Reticulum - Answers - doorway food enters/leaves stomach (chewing cud)
Omasum - Answers - has many folds that help with mechanical digest
Abomasum - Answers - "true stomach"
Crop - Answers - in avians; where food is stored and digested enzymatically
Gizzard - Answers - in avians; mechanically reduces particle size
Heritability - Answers - The proportion of variation in phenotype that is due to the
variation in genotype
Female organs in parturition - Answers - uterus, cervix, vagina, vulva
Cow, goat, sheep ovaries - Answers - round in shape
Mare ovaries - Answers - kidney shaped
Sow ovaries - Answers - shaped like a bunch of grapes
Follicles - Answers - blister-like; either die or ovulate
Corpus Luteum - Answers - big, vascular; formed from tissue after follicle has ovulated
Corpus Albicans - Answers - small, white; scar tissue left behind after CL regresses
Oviduct - Answers - near ovary; fertilization happens here
Uterus - Answers - responsible for maintenance of pregnancy
Cervix - Answers - thick, muscular; isolates uterus from external environment during
pregnancy
Vagina - Answers - protects uterus from bacterial invasion; site of semen deposition
Vulva - Answers - external female genitalia
