ANSC 1401 EXAM TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Felines - ✔✔Genus, Species: Felis catus
✔✔Feline Terms - ✔✔Clowder/Glaring, Kitten, Tom, Queen, Gib, Mating,
Littering/Queening
✔✔Canines - ✔✔Genus, species, subspecies; Canis lupus familiaris
✔✔Canine Terms - ✔✔Pack, Pup, Stud Dog, Dam/Bitch, Neutered, Spayed,
Copulating, Whelping
✔✔Passive Immunity - ✔✔Transfer of antibodies via milk
✔✔Docking - ✔✔removal of tail
✔✔Ear notching - ✔✔Used to indicated disease treatment or for identification
✔✔The crown of the skull of a large ruminant - ✔✔Poll
✔✔When an animal has a smooth crown with no horns or horn-like tissue - ✔✔Polled
✔✔Small hornlike tissue - ✔✔Scurs
✔✔Moving an embryo from one animal to another - ✔✔Embryo Transfer
✔✔Entire reproductive cycle of a female - ✔✔Estrous
✔✔Heat - ✔✔Estrus
✔✔Not in heat - ✔✔Anestrus
✔✔Gestation Period - ✔✔Bovine: 283 d, Caprine/Ovine: 147 d, Equine: 340 d, Porcine:
114 d, Feline: 65 d, Canine: 63 d, Poultry incubation: 21 d
✔✔What is a difficult birth and the types - ✔✔Dystocia: Breach, Posterior, Two Front
Legs
✔✔What is correct presentation during birth ofr large animals - ✔✔anterior presentation
✔✔Milk that contains high levels antibodies - ✔✔Colostrum
, ✔✔Non-lactating period - ✔✔Dry
✔✔Allowing animals to eat all they want - ✔✔Ad Libitum
✔✔Limiting animals consumption - ✔✔Restriction
✔✔Increased growth after a period of undernournishment - ✔✔Compensatory gain
✔✔Feed that is high in energy or protein and highly digestible - ✔✔Concentrate
✔✔Feed that is highly fermentable fiber - ✔✔Roughage
✔✔A group of animals of the same sex and breed raised in similar environments -
✔✔Contemporary Groups
✔✔Animals on high concentrate diets that are bound for harvest - ✔✔Feeder
✔✔Intended for slaughter or to contribute carcass traits to offspring - ✔✔Terminal
✔✔Extremely dark lean tissue in beef caused by extreme stress - ✔✔Dark Cutter
✔✔Pigs that experience long term stress prior to slaughter - ✔✔Pale, soft, and
exudative
✔✔What is the gross annual income of the swine industry in the US - ✔✔$21 Billion
✔✔How much pig meat does the US produce - ✔✔The US produces world's 9% of pork
with 7% of world's hogs
✔✔What was the purpose of the swine industry in the US - ✔✔To use surplus grain
production and high-quality by-product feeds to produce meat
✔✔How does the US rank in pork production - ✔✔3rd, 1/3 of all pork is exported
✔✔Top 5 states in pork production - ✔✔Iowa (mostly family owned), North Carolina
(corporate hog farms), Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana
✔✔When were hogs first brought to the western hemisphere - ✔✔By Columbus in 1493
✔✔When were pigs first brought to North America - ✔✔By Hernando DeSoto in 1539
✔✔When was the first meatpacking plant built - ✔✔1641
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Felines - ✔✔Genus, Species: Felis catus
✔✔Feline Terms - ✔✔Clowder/Glaring, Kitten, Tom, Queen, Gib, Mating,
Littering/Queening
✔✔Canines - ✔✔Genus, species, subspecies; Canis lupus familiaris
✔✔Canine Terms - ✔✔Pack, Pup, Stud Dog, Dam/Bitch, Neutered, Spayed,
Copulating, Whelping
✔✔Passive Immunity - ✔✔Transfer of antibodies via milk
✔✔Docking - ✔✔removal of tail
✔✔Ear notching - ✔✔Used to indicated disease treatment or for identification
✔✔The crown of the skull of a large ruminant - ✔✔Poll
✔✔When an animal has a smooth crown with no horns or horn-like tissue - ✔✔Polled
✔✔Small hornlike tissue - ✔✔Scurs
✔✔Moving an embryo from one animal to another - ✔✔Embryo Transfer
✔✔Entire reproductive cycle of a female - ✔✔Estrous
✔✔Heat - ✔✔Estrus
✔✔Not in heat - ✔✔Anestrus
✔✔Gestation Period - ✔✔Bovine: 283 d, Caprine/Ovine: 147 d, Equine: 340 d, Porcine:
114 d, Feline: 65 d, Canine: 63 d, Poultry incubation: 21 d
✔✔What is a difficult birth and the types - ✔✔Dystocia: Breach, Posterior, Two Front
Legs
✔✔What is correct presentation during birth ofr large animals - ✔✔anterior presentation
✔✔Milk that contains high levels antibodies - ✔✔Colostrum
, ✔✔Non-lactating period - ✔✔Dry
✔✔Allowing animals to eat all they want - ✔✔Ad Libitum
✔✔Limiting animals consumption - ✔✔Restriction
✔✔Increased growth after a period of undernournishment - ✔✔Compensatory gain
✔✔Feed that is high in energy or protein and highly digestible - ✔✔Concentrate
✔✔Feed that is highly fermentable fiber - ✔✔Roughage
✔✔A group of animals of the same sex and breed raised in similar environments -
✔✔Contemporary Groups
✔✔Animals on high concentrate diets that are bound for harvest - ✔✔Feeder
✔✔Intended for slaughter or to contribute carcass traits to offspring - ✔✔Terminal
✔✔Extremely dark lean tissue in beef caused by extreme stress - ✔✔Dark Cutter
✔✔Pigs that experience long term stress prior to slaughter - ✔✔Pale, soft, and
exudative
✔✔What is the gross annual income of the swine industry in the US - ✔✔$21 Billion
✔✔How much pig meat does the US produce - ✔✔The US produces world's 9% of pork
with 7% of world's hogs
✔✔What was the purpose of the swine industry in the US - ✔✔To use surplus grain
production and high-quality by-product feeds to produce meat
✔✔How does the US rank in pork production - ✔✔3rd, 1/3 of all pork is exported
✔✔Top 5 states in pork production - ✔✔Iowa (mostly family owned), North Carolina
(corporate hog farms), Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana
✔✔When were hogs first brought to the western hemisphere - ✔✔By Columbus in 1493
✔✔When were pigs first brought to North America - ✔✔By Hernando DeSoto in 1539
✔✔When was the first meatpacking plant built - ✔✔1641
