Chapter 1: vocabulary Flashcards
The combination of disciplines that together comprise the study of domestic animals
Animals Science
The combination of science and art used to cultivate and grow crops and livestock and process the products
Agriculture
Those species that have been brought under human control and that have adapted to life with humans
Domestic
In this context culture refers to the set of occupational activities, economic structures, believes/values, social forms, and material traits that define our actions and activities.
Culture
People support their needs by hunting game, fishing, and gathering edible and medicinal plants.
Hunter-gatherer
Anyone who practices agriculture by managing and cultivating livestock and or crops
Farmer
In modern context, this refers to what we consider a fairly high level of cultural and technological development.
Civilization
The science of hereditary and the variation of inherited characteristics.
Genetics
The transmission of genetic characteristic form parent to offspring.
Heredity
The use of biometry and genetics to improve farm animal production.
Animal breeding
The application of statistics to topics in biology.
Biometry
The set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences) by living cells.
Genetic code
The study of nutrients and how the body uses them
Nutrition
The study of the physical and chemical processes of an animal or any of the body systems or cells of the animal.
Physiology
The study and practice of maintaining animals as near to a constant state of health as is possible and feasible.
Animal health
The study of animal welfare assessment, optimizing production, behavioral control, behavioral disorders, and behavioral genetics.
Animal behavior
The science of handling, distributing, and marketing meat and meat products.
Meat science
The flesh of animals used for food.
Meat
The science of providing milk and milk products as food.
Dairy product science
A collective set of tools and applications of living organisms, or parts of organisms, to make or modify products, improve plants or animals, or develop microorganisms for specific uses.
Biotechnology
Those resources that can be replaced or produced by natural ecological cycles or management systems.
Renewable resources
An animal that eats both animal and plant based feeds.
Omnivore.
A measurement of the nutrients provided in a food compared to the calories it contains.
Nutrient Density
The total of the foods and water being consumed by an individual or a group.
Diet
Those amino acids required by the body that must be consumed in the diet.
Essential Amino Acids
Receiving inadequate nourishment for proper health and growth.
Undernourished
An animal whose major purpose is to perform work that involves hauling or pulling. An ox or a horse pulling a plow or wagon is a draft animal.
Draft animal
Per unit of population: by or for each person.
Per capita
Gas or liquid fuel made from biological materials such as crops and animal waste.
Biofuel
