Is the science of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics?

Is the use of biometry and genetics to improve farm animal production?

Is the study of how organisms take in and use food/feed for body needs?

Is the study of the mechanisms of life from the single biochemical reactions in cells to the coordinated total of specialized cells that constitute a living animal?

Is the study of how diseases, parasites, and environmental factors affect productivity and animal welfare?

Developed along with the livestock industry’s increased dependence on confinement rearing systems, which provide greater control over animals, reduce labor and feed costs, and help maximize genetic potential?

Deals with the collection, handling, and marketing of milk in its many forms to the consuming public?

Deals with the handling, distribution, and marketing of finished meat products?

Involves technological applications of biology?

A female bovine that has had offspring?

A male bovine capable of reproducing?

A young female bovine that has not had offspring?

A castrated male bovine?

A young bovine less than 30 mo?

The act of giving birth to a calf?

The act of giving birth to a kid?

The act of giving birth to a piglet?

To remove a young animal from its’ mother?

Nutrient rich milk from the mother following birth?

The period when a female produces milk after a birth?

When a female produces milk prior to giving birth?

The act of removing unproductive animals from a group?

A female hog that has given birth?

A male hog capable of breeding?

A young female porcine?

A young male porcine?

A group of piglets born at one time?

The introduction of semen into the vagina or uterus without sexual reproduction?

The amount of feed consumed by an animal each day?

The amount of weight gained by an animal during its growing stages?

The mating of animals of different breeds?

An estimate of the total fat content of feeds?

An estimate for total protein content of feeds?

Everything contained in a feed sample except water; this includes protein, fiber, fat, minerals, etc.?

The amount of (or prediction of the amount of) dry matter consumed by an animal?

An animal in its earliest stages of development, before all the major body structure are represented?

The transfer into a recipient’s uterus of an egg that has been fertilized in vitro and is at the blastula stage of development?