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Animal Care
ID - vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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Abdomen | midsection; stomach |
Hindquarters | Hindquarters rear end |
Rectum | the end of the intestine |
Grooming | the act of keeping clean |
Fry | baby or young fish |
Fertilize | pollinate; inseminate; impregnate |
Offspring | the young or product of animal or plant |
Pressure Bandage | bandage used to stop bleeding |
Inherited | passed on from one generation to another |
Palpating | examining and feeling with the hands |
Physical Examination | good inspection of all or parts of an animal or human body |
Pulse | regular throbbing caused in the arteries by blood traveling through |
Respiration | the single complete act of breathing (both in and out movements) |
Parasites | mites, fleas, ticks, lice; an organism living on or in another organism |
Elements | the things (carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, minerals) that provide good nutrition |
Breeding | producing more of something: the process of bearing or generating |
Genetic Characteristics | qualities or traits that can be inherited |
Recessive Characteristic | an inherited characteristic that produces little or no effect |
Dominant Characteristic | an inherited characteristic that is commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
Purebred | an animal that has characteristics that can be recognized easily and have stayed the same through generations of unmixed breeding |