HAS Introduction to Animal Sciences (Ch1)

What is generated by agriculturalists and sustains the developed world?

Animal product output must _______ by 2050

Humans are

What percentage of the US diet is protein from animal products?

These species have been brought under human control and produce for humankind's needs.

What is gas or liquid fuel made from biological materials, such as crops and animal waste?

The combination of science and art used to cultivate and grow plants and livestock and process the products.

An animal whose major purpose is to perform work that involves hauling or pulling.

Large increases in the supply and demand of livestock at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

What is the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring?

Technology that uses living organisms, or parts of organisms, to make or modify products, and improve plants or animals.

What is the collective study of domestic animals?

A set of occupational activities, economic structures, values, social forms, and material traits that define our actions

Per capita is

What is the role of animals in medical research?

Since 1900, how many years have been added to the average American lifespan due to biomedical research?

Choose the definition of genetics.

A group of people who support their needs by hunting game, fishing, and gathering edible and medicinal plants.

Where are the most livestock located?

The science of heredity and variation of inherited characteristics.

What was the first animal to be domesticated?

A person receiving inadequate nourishment for proper health and growth is?

Which of the following are important draft animals?

Dietary exceptions are almost always due to ________ or ___________

What percentage of nonhuman power is provided by draft animals in subsistence agriculture?