Agriculture Exams (Animal Science) – Page 6

#100. The hairs on the body of the cattle converge to form hair streams and vortices known as ______.
A Patch
B cowlick
C crypt
D hair pattern
Answer: cowlick
#101. An oily and semi-liquid secretion of an animal’s sebaceous gland, which protects the skin from harmful substances.
A dansdruff
B cuticle
C Sebum
D cenumen
Answer: Sebum
#102. It is the range of environmental temperature where any regulation to maintain body temperature is only slight and it is of the physical variety.
A maximal heat production
B zone of thermal conflict
C Summit metabolism
D critical temperature
Answer: zone of thermal conflict
#103. If the ambient temperature is equal to the body temperature the body losses heat only by ______________.
A conduction
B Radiation
C vaporization
D convection
Answer: vaporization
#104. _______is a chemical means of thermoregulation.
A changing free surface
B Locating a shelter
C changing amount of thermal insulation
D shivering
Answer: shivering
#105. This term refers to the maintenance of static or constant conditions in the thermal environment of the animal
A homozygous
B homeokinesis
C homeothermy
D Homeostasis of the animal
Answer: Homeostasis of the animal
#106. _______is the hormone which facilitates the transport of glucose from the blood into the cells of tissues.
A calcitonin
B Insulin
C thyroxine
D prolactin
Answer: Insulin
#107. This vitamin is important for blood clotting because it is used as a co-factor in the synthesis of prothrombin by the liver.
A Vitamin A
B vitamin D
C vitamin K
D vitamin C
Answer: vitamin K
#108. Which of the following is not present in the lymph fluid?
A Glucose
B erythrocytes
C platelets
D lymphocytes
Answer: platelets
#109. Passive expiration is exemplified by which activity?
A Coughing
B talking aloud
C quiet breathing
D laughing
Answer: quiet breathing
#110. Which of the following is not included in the animal industry of the country?
A pig
B cattle
C chicken
D camel
Answer: camel
#111. This animal subsists mainly on grasses and is raised mainly by smallholder farmers in the rural areas.
A chicken
B Pig
C duck
D carabao
Answer: carabao
#112. Which animal is the one that can perceive many colors of the light spectrum?
A sheep
B goat
C pig
D Cattle
Answer: pig
#113. An animal that has very poor sense of taste.
A goat
B horse
C Chicken
D cattle
Answer: Chicken
#114. A classification of bone which is greater in one direction than any other and functions mainly as levers and aid in support, locomotion and prehension.
A pneumatic bone
B Long bone
C short bone
D sesamoid bone
Answer: Long bone
#115. The wish bone of chickens is actually the ______________________.
A humerus
B ulna
C clavicle
D radius
Answer: clavicle
#116. The muscle which constitutes the thickness of the wall of the heart (myocardium).
A thick muscle
B smooth muscle
C Cardiac muscle
D skeletal muscle
Answer: Cardiac muscle
#117. It is the hormone that increase the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of the body.
A thyroxine
B Epinephrine
C prolactin
D calcitonin
Answer: thyroxine
#118. The production system of this livestock species is very intensive, commercially oriented and depends heavily on commercial missed feeds.
A pig
B carabao
C goat
D cattle
Answer: pig
#119. The biological system that is composed of the brain, spinal cord and the nerves.
A Cardiovascular system
B Endocrine system
C Excretory system
D Nervous system
Answer: Nervous system