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What percent of food produced for human consumption in the
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U.S. is wasted? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔50%
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What percent of the world's population consumes agricultural
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products? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔100% |\ |\ |\ |\
A given dairy cow consumes 40# of corn silage as part of her
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daily ration. The silage is 67% water. How many pounds of dry
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matter is this cow getting from the silage? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Dry matter= 40lbs x (1 - 0.67)= 13.2 lbs
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At the meat case in the grocery store there is chicken that is
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labelled "fresh". What does that mean? (be specific) - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔It means that the chicken has never been frozen.
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The process of division that cells go through to make sperm or
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ovum is called? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔meiosis
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What hormone is responsible for maintenance of pregnancy? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔progesterone |\ |\
Which best defines a stocker operation? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔adds weight to weaned calves before finishing
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, Which of the following animals was thought to be domesticated
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first? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔dog
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In Hereford cattle polled is a dominant trait. If you mate a
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homozygous horned sire to a heterozygous polled dam, what |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
percentage of the offspring will be horned? - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
✔✔50%
Which word indicates a set of birds with similar characteristics? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔variety |\ |\
The definition of animal science used in class is: The combination
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of disciplines that together compromise the study of domestic
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animals... true or false - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔true |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
If the analysis of data from an experiment support a scientists
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original hypothesis, then a new experiment may be conducted
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again to test that same hypothesis. All in accordance to the
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scientific method. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔True |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
What are characteristics among animals that have been
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domesticated? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔tolerate humans, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
generally live comfortable in groups, reproduce well in captivity
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The 3 missions of a land-grant university are: - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Teaching, research, extension |\ |\ |\