Avian Bio Test 1

Question 1

AQ Chicken

Answer 1

Arkansas Quality

Question 2

How many types of Jungle Fowl are there?

Answer 2

4

Question 3

What are the types of Jungle Fowl?

Answer 3

Red
Green
Gray
Ceylon

Question 4

What was the first animal to be domesticated?

Answer 4

Dog

Question 5

What area of the world were most animals domesticated?

Answer 5

Fertile Crescent

Question 6

How many orders of living birds are there?

Answer 6

30

Question 7

Chickens and turkeys belong to the ____ order.

Answer 7

Galliformes

Question 8

Ducks and geese belong to the ____ order.

Answer 8

Anseriformes

Question 9

What two empires helped spread the domestication of chickens?

Answer 9

Roman

Greek

Question 10

What was the heaviest ancient bird?

Answer 10

Elephant bird

Question 11

What was the tallest ancient bird?

Answer 11

Moa

Question 12

What is the tallest bird today?

Answer 12

Ostrich

Question 13

Who is the father of taxonomy?

Answer 13

Carl Linneaus

Question 14

When was the pato duck domesticated?

Answer 14

Pre-Columbian Mexico

Question 15

What order to pigeons belong to?

Answer 15

Columbiformes

Question 16

What rank is Arkansas in broiler production?

Answer 16

2nd

Question 17

What rank is Arkansas in turkey production?

Answer 17

3rd

Question 18

What is a broiler?

Answer 18

Meat-type bird

Question 19

What is the biggest cost in broiler production?

Answer 19

Feed

Question 20

What are the three components of the Arkansas poultry industry?

Answer 20

Broilers
Turkeys
Eggs

Question 21

What part of the USA is most broiler production in?

Answer 21

Southern Region

Question 22

When and where was the turkey domesticated?

Answer 22

Pre-Columbian Mexico

South west USA

Question 23

What is unique about the production of turkeys?

Answer 23

Artificial insemination

Question 24

What are two breeds of chickens that contributed to the development of modern broilers?

Answer 24

Plymouth Rock

White Cornish

Question 25

Cob

Answer 25

male swan

Question 26

Drake

Answer 26

male duck

Question 27

Pullet

Answer 27

female poultry (

Question 28

Squab

Answer 28

baby pigeon

Question 29

Cygnet

Answer 29

baby swan

Question 30

Poult

Answer 30

baby turkey

Question 31

Tom

Answer 31

male turkey

Question 32

Capon

Answer 32

castrated male chicken

Question 33

Gander

Answer 33

male goose

Question 34

In Arkansas poultry provides __ in __ agriculture jobs.

Answer 34

1 : 4

Question 35

What was the first animal domesticated for food?

Answer 35

Sheep

Question 36

What does NPIP stand for?

Answer 36

National Poultry ___ ____

Question 37

Archaeological and DNA evidence supports multiple sites for the domestication of chickens. List two sites and cultures that domesticated chickens.

Answer 37

Hahpan - Pakistan/Fertile Crescent | Cishan - China

Question 38

Who is considered to be the Father of the Arkansas Turkey industry?

Answer 38

Harold Dodgin

Question 39

What is vertical integration?

Answer 39

The company owns everything from the hatchery to production until it is sold.

Question 40

What are two major advantages/benefits of vertical integration?

Answer 40

Cuts out the middle man

Question 41

For a contract grower in a vertically integrated poultry operation, what does the farmer own or provide?

Answer 41

Labor Housing Disposal of dead bird

Question 42

What does the company own or provide in the vertically integrated poultry operation?

Answer 42

Medicine | Food

Question 43

What is domestication?

Answer 43

Selecting of animals and/or plants for a specific use in order to change the genotype and phenotype

Question 44

What is taming?

Answer 44

To keep animals as pets, not to change genetics.

Question 45

What are 4 criteria for domestication?

Answer 45

Availability Easy to tame/temperament Willingness to breed in captivity Social hierarchy

Question 46

Table egg processing facilities require more labor than broiler or turkey processing facilities. T/F

Answer 46

False

Question 47

What were two animals whose domestication had a very significant development and had a tremendous impact on human history?

Answer 47

Cows | Horses

Question 48

Which type of housing costs more? Why?

Answer 48

Egg production | Paying for cages

Question 49

What were two diseases that were instrumental in the development of the NPIP program P/T test?

Answer 49

Salmonella ____ | Salmonella ____

Question 50

Who was the Spanish conquistador who brought chickens to the Americas from Europe?

Answer 50

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Question 51

List four Arkansas Poultry companies.

Answer 51

Tyson Simmons Cobb Vantress Cargill

Question 52

What breed of chicken is typically used by the industry for commercial egg production? Where did this breed originate? What color egg does this bird produce?

Answer 52

White Leghorn Strain Italy White