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Lesson 4 Section 4B Reproductive & Genetic Terminology Flashcards

1
Q

What is a billy goat?

A

Male goat

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2
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What is a bitch?

A

Female dog

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3
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What is a boar?

A

Male pig

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4
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What is a brood?

A

Offspring from one hatching of a bird’s egg

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5
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What is broody?

A

Hen sitting on eggs

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6
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What is a buck?

A

Male deer, goat, rabbit, or kangaroo

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7
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What is a bull?

A

Male of various large mammals, especially cattle

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8
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What is a bullock?

A

Castrated bull or steer

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9
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What is a calf

A

Bovine younger than one year

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10
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What is a capon?

A

A neutered rooster

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11
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What is a chromosome?

A

Bodies within the cell nucleus that store genetic information

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12
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What is a clutch?

A

Group of eggs laid at one time by a bird

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13
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What is a cob?

A

Male swan

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14
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What is a cock?

A

Male chicken older than one year

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15
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What is cockerel?

A

Male chicken younger than one year

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16
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What is colostrum?

A

Protein - and antibody-rich milk secreted by the mother after giving birth

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17
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What is a colt?

A

Male horse before maturity

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18
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What is congenital?

A

Condition existing at birth but not hereditary

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19
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What is a cow?

A

Female in various large animals, especially cattle

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20
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What is a cur?

A

mixed-breed dog of little value

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21
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What is a cygnet?

A

Young swan

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22
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What is a dam?

A

female parent

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23
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What is a doe?

A

Adult female goat or deer

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24
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What is a drake?

A

Male duck

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25
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What is Estrus?

A

Time of reproductive cycle when the female is receptive to mating

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26
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What is a ewe?

A

Female sheep of breeding age

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27
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What is a filly?

A

Female horse under four years old

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28
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What is a fledgling?

A

Young bird just learning to fly

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29
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What is a foal?

A

Young or newborn horse

30
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What is a gander?

A

Male goose

31
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What is a gelding?

A

Neutered male horse

32
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What is gestation period?

A

Time between conception and birth of an offspring?

33
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What is a gilt?

A

Young female pig

34
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What is a gobbler?

A

Male turkey

35
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What is a gosling?

A

young goose

36
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What does gravid mean?

A

Pregnant

37
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What is a heifer?

A

A young cow

38
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What is an inguinal hernia?

A

Protrusion of tissue through inguinal canals of males

39
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What is a jenny?

A

A female donkey

40
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what is a jack?

A

a male donkey

41
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What is a kid?

A

young goat

42
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What is a lamb?

A

a young sheep

43
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What is a mare?

A

A female horse four years or older

44
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What is a miscarriage?

A

Expulsion of underdeveloped fetus

45
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What is does it mean to be monestrous?

A

Have one estrus period a year

46
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What is a mongrel?

A

a mutt; mixed breed

47
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What is a nanny goat?

A

Female goat

48
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What is a Nuptial plumage?

A

brilliant mating-season plumage exhibited by some birds, usually males

49
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What is oviparous?

A

Animals whose eggs develop outside the mothers body

50
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what is ovoviviparous?

A

Animals whose eggs develop within the mothers oviduct

51
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What is parturition?

A

process of giving birth

52
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What is a pen?

A

a female swan

53
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What is polyestrus?

A

having more than one estrous period per year

54
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What is a prepuce?

A

protective sheath covering the penis

55
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What is a pullet?

A

Female chicken younger than one year

56
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What is a queen?

A

mature, entire female cat used for breeding

57
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What is a ram?

A

male, entire, sexually mature sheep (6 months or older)

58
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What is a rooster?

A

Male chicken

59
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What is a shoat?

A

pig under one year old

60
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What is a sire?

A

male parent of any quadruped, especially a horse

61
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What is a sow?

A

female pig

62
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What is a squab?

A

Fledgling pigeon

63
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What is a stag?

A

male deer

64
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What is a stallion?

A

male horse

65
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What is a steer?

A

Neutered bull

66
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What is a stud?

A

male horse used for reeding

67
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What is a tom?

A

male turkey or cat

68
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What is viviparous?

A

Giving birth to live young developed in the uterus

69
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What is a Vixen?

A

Female fox

70
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What is a wether?

A

neutered ram or billy goat

71
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What is a whelp (noun)

A

young of a dog

72
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what is a whelp (verb)

A

Giving birth to said especially of dogs

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