Animal Science Unit 1

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Animal Industry

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All of the activities in raising animals and meeting the needs people have for animals and animal products.

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Animal Production

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Raising animals for food, companionship, and other uses.

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Livestock

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Mammals produced on farms and ranches for food and other purposes

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Companion animal

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An animals used to provide humans with the. And friendships through close association.

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Poultry

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A group of fowl (birds) that are raised for use as food and other products such as feathers

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Animal supplies

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The inputs needed in animal production

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Animal services

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The help that producers need to raise animals efficiently. For instance, veterinarians.

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Animal Marketing

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Process of moving animals and their products from the producer to the consumer

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Animal processing

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Preparing animals or their products for the consumer

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By-products

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A product made from the parts of animals that are not used for food, such as bone meal for fertilizer.

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Meat Animal

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An animal raised for meat

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Dairy Cattle

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Cattle specifically grown to produce milk

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Mohair

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A product from Angora Goats

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Industrial Farms

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A large-scale corporate-type operation that efficiently produces animals in carefully controlled environments

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Animal Domestication

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Taking animals from nature and keeping them in a controlled environment

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Science

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Knowledge about the world we live in

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Life science

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About living things, and includes Zoology

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Zoology

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The study of animals

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Botany

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The study of plants

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Technology

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The use of science in the work and lives of people

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Animal Selection

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Choosing animals to achieve desired goals

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Health

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The condition in which an animal is free of disease and all parts of the animals are functioning properly

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Veterinary Medicine

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The area that deals with the health and well-being of animals

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Reproduction

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The process by which offspring are produced

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Environment

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The surroundings of an animal

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Neutering

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Done to keep an animal from reproducing or to get other desired traits

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Castration

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Neutering involves the removing of the testicles

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Spaying

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Removing the ovaries or cutting the Fallopian tubes so eggs cannot enter the uterus where they may be fertilized and develope as an embryo and fetus

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Animal Well-being

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Caring for an animals so that it’s needs are met and it does not suffer.

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Euthanasia

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Killing an animal that is suffering

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Animal Welfare

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Using animals for human purposes that sacrifice the notion that animals have interests

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Animal Rights

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The notion that animals have rights like humans

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Animal Shelter

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A place that receives and provides care for abandoned, lost, stray, and for those that have been give up by their owners.

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Animals as By-Products

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Bones: buttons, glue, mineral supplement for livestock feed (calcium)

Fat: chemicals, salves, creams, dressings, lubricants, soaps, food

Glands: medicines, and food additives

Collagen: glue and gelatin

Intestinal and stomach tissue: lunch meats, surgical sutures, strings for musical and sports instruments

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Medicine from Livestock

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Insulin: from the pancreas of animals for diabetics

Cortisone: adrenal gland and used for arthritis

Thrombin: from blood of animals, used in surgery to help blood clot. Also used in skin-graft operations and ulcers.

Heparin: from the lungs and prevents blood from clotting in operations

Epinephrine: adrenal gland and used to treat allergies and asthma

Corticotropin: pituitary glad and is used from some breathing problems, severe allergies, mononucleosis and leukemia.

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Animals for work

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Cultivate land

Transportation

Control other animals

Assist physically & mentally handicapped

Blind

Epileptic & diabetic

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Other uses...

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Hides- leather

Hair- wool, mohair, fiber

Lab animals

Companionships

Body parts used for transplants