Carcass Componants

Question 1

species class names for under 3 months

Answer 1

Bovine-Veal
Ovine-Hothouse lamb
Porcine-slaughter pig
Caprine-cabrito

Question 2

species class names for 3-9 months

Answer 2

Bovine-calf
Ovine-lamb
Porcine-butcher hog
Caprine-kid

Question 3

species class names for 1-2 years

Answer 3

Bovine-beef
Ovine-yearling mutton
Porcine-packer sow/stag/boar
Caprine-yearling

Question 4

species class names for greater than 2 years

Answer 4

Bovine-beef
Ovine-mutton
Porcine-packer sow/stag/boar
Caprine-adult

Question 5

what is a stag

Answer 5

pig castrated after development of secondary sexual characteristics

Question 6

major components of a carcass

Answer 6

bone
connective tissue
muscle
fat

Question 7

minor components of a carcass

Answer 7

skin
arteries
nerves
veins

Question 8

what is variety meat

Answer 8

edible organs and glands

Question 9

what organs count as variety meat

Answer 9

kidney
liver
heart
tongue
sweetbread
stomach
tripe

Question 10

what is reclaimed meat

Answer 10

products obtained from bone, fat, or blood

Question 11

how is reclaimed meat from bone made

Answer 11

everything is ground and bone is filtered out

Question 12

what was used to make the “pink slime”

Answer 12

fat

Question 13

name for reclaimed meat from bone? fat? blood?

Answer 13

bone-mechanically separated
fat-lean finely textured
blood-plasma protein isolate

Question 14

what connective tissue gets converted to gelatin with heat

Answer 14

collagen

Question 15

what is the impure form of collagen

Answer 15

reticulin

Question 16

types of connective tissue

Answer 16

collagen
elastin
reticulin

Question 17

what is the smallest functional unit of muscle

Answer 17

muscle fiber

Question 18

components of a muscle fiber

Answer 18

A band
I band
nuclei
myofibrils

Question 19

what tissue surrounds a whole muscle

Answer 19

epimysium

Question 20

what tissue surrounds a muscle bundle

Answer 20

perimysium

Question 21

what tissue surrounds muscle fibers

Answer 21

endomysium

Question 22

what is the basic contractile unit of muscle

Answer 22

sarcomer

Question 23

what holds thick muscle fibers together

Answer 23

m line

Question 24

what holds thin muscle fibers together

Answer 24

z line

Question 25

how does muscle contraction work

Answer 25

z lines get closer together shortening the sarcomere

Question 26

how does meat age affect tenderness

Answer 26

tenderness increases with meat age

Question 27

when is the meat the most tough

Answer 27

at rigor mortis

Question 28

how does sarcomere length impact tenderness

Answer 28

the longer the sarcomere the more tender

Question 29

what are thick myofilaments made of

Answer 29

myosin

Question 30

what are thin myofilaments made of

Answer 30

actin tropomyosin troponin

Question 31

h zone

Answer 31

region of A band containing only thick myofilaments

Question 32

T/F muscle fibers are multinucleated

Answer 32

TRUE

Question 33

what components of thin myofilaments are used for contraction

Answer 33

tropomyosin troponin