Egg Parts Chicken Terms Reproduction Vocab Vocab #2
Vocab #3
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Egg Parts: 1 point
Blunt end of the egg, size increases as egg ages
What is the air cell?
Egg Parts: 2 points
Source of protein
What is albumen?
Egg Parts: 3 points
Source of vitamins, minerals, and fats
What is the yolk?
Egg Parts: 4 points
Sperm fertilizes the egg within this part
What is the germinal disc?
Egg Parts: 5 points
Anchors the yolk in the center of the egg
What is the chalaza?
Chicken Terms: 1 point
Non-castrated male chicken
What is a rooster?
Chicken Terms : 2 points
Female chicken that HAS had offspring
What is a hen?
Chicken Terms : 3 points
Female chicken that HAS NOT had offspring
What is a pullet?
Chicken Terms : 4 points
Castrated male chicken
What is a capon?
Chicken Terms : 5 points
Gestation length
What is 21 days?
Reproduction: 1 point
An egg
What is an ovum?
Reproduction : 2 points
Female organ that produces the egg and hormones
What is the ovary?
Reproduction : 3 points
The male reproductive cell that unites with an egg
What is sperm?
Reproduction : 4 points
The funnel shaped structure on the end of the fallopian tube that functions in collecting the ova during ovulation
What is the infundibulum?
Reproduction : 5 points
The hormone that activates the egg-laying process in hens
What is oxytocin?
Vocab: 1 point
The basic building blocks of living tissues
What are cells?
Vocab: 2 points
Industry that raises chickens for their meat
What is the broiler industry?
Vocab: 3 points
Using light to determine defects in the egg
What is candling?
Vocab: 4 points
Part of the fallopian tube between the ampulla and the uterus
What is the magnum?
Vocab: 5 points
Chemical changes in cells, organs, and the entire body that provide energy for the animal
What is metabolism?
Vocab #2: 1 point
Another name for the uterus of a hen
What is the shell gland?
Vocab #2: 2 points
The habit of some birds in a flock of pecking and clawing other birds in the flock
What is cannibalism?
Vocab #2 : 3 points
The degree and thickness of muscle on an animal’s body
What is muscling?
Vocab #2: 4 points
Casting off old feathers before new growth occurs
What is molting?
Vocab #2: 5 points
The amount of superiority in a crossbred animal compared with the average of their purebred parents
What is heterosis?
Vocab #3: 1 point
The naturally occurring color in the hair and skin of an animal
What is pigmentation?
Vocab #3: 2 points
Substance that develops into the albumen of the egg
What is mucin?
Vocab #3: 3 points
An organism in the earliest stage of development
What is an embryo?
Vocab #3: 4 points
The opening in a hen’s body through which the egg is expelled
What is the cloaca?
Vocab #3: 5 points
An animal produced from the mating of parents of different breeds
What is a hybrid?
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