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ASC 340 Poultry Production FINALEXAM
oviposition - correct answer ✔✔Term for laying an egg
Brazil - correct answer ✔✔country where the largest chicken meat producing company is located
Calcitonin - correct answer ✔✔hormone that works to decrease calcium in the blood
Uric Acid - correct answer ✔✔excretory product of birds
glucagon - correct answer ✔✔hormone that works to increase blood sugar and effects fatty acids
Uropygial Gland - correct answer ✔✔another name for the preen gland
Georgia - correct answer ✔✔state that is the largest producer of chicken meat in the US
Wattles - correct answer ✔✔Flesh suspended from the necks of chickens
Duodenum - correct answer ✔✔first section of the small intestine
poultry company - correct answer ✔✔In the American chicken meat industry, they own the chickens
pygostyle - correct answer ✔✔another name for the tail bone
bile - correct answer ✔✔functions in the duodenum to emulsify fat and neutralize the pH
,Fat/Lipid - correct answer ✔✔secretions of the liver are important for the digestion of this nutrient
Ratite - correct answer ✔✔bird lacking a keel(breast) bone
Ceca(um) - correct answer ✔✔pair of blind pouches located at the junction of the small and large
intestines
melatonin - correct answer ✔✔hormone that affects sleep, behavior, and electrical brain activity
Lipase - correct answer ✔✔enzyme that aids in fat digestion
nipple drinker - correct answer ✔✔most commonly used watering system in the American chicken meat
industry
What distinguishes an avian RBC from a mammalian RBC? - correct answer ✔✔Avian RBCs are
nucleated, while mammalian RBCs are not
Proventriculus - correct answer ✔✔the true stomach in birds
Oxytocin - correct answer ✔✔produced in the hypothalamus and involved in oviposition
Isthmus - correct answer ✔✔where the shell membranes are added to the developing "egg"
preening - correct answer ✔✔rearranging the interlocking barbs of the feathers
Vertical Integration - correct answer ✔✔Type of integrated management system used by the American
chicken meat industry
Pepsin - correct answer ✔✔proteolytic enzyme secreted in the "true stomach" of birds
, ovulation - correct answer ✔✔release of the mature yolk from the ovary and in to the oviduct
crop - correct answer ✔✔early portion of the digestive tract where food is stored before moving on to
the rest of the digestive tract
pituitary - correct answer ✔✔master gland of the avian endocrine system
parathormone - correct answer ✔✔hormone that works to increase calcium in the blood
broiler - correct answer ✔✔commercial meat chicken
cleft palate - correct answer ✔✔condition of the palate of chickens and they reason why they are not
able to swallow
magnum - correct answer ✔✔where the albumen is added to the developing "egg"; the larges t part of
the oviduct; egg will stay for 3 hours
esophagus - correct answer ✔✔tube that connects the mouth with the rest of the digestive tract
pneumatic bones - correct answer ✔✔avian bones that are hollow, less dense, and connected to the
respiratory tract
Keel bone - correct answer ✔✔breast bone of chicken
capon - correct answer ✔✔a castrated young rooster
amylase - correct answer ✔✔enzyme involved in starch digestion
altricial - correct answer ✔✔birds that are under-developed when hatched and depend on parental care
IE: Pigeons
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