ANSC 1011 Lecture : Introduction To Animal Science Notes
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***monday 7 pm vet school auditorium pay dues 15$ semester a year prevetclub@lsu. edu kayla. Introduction: food, pets, entertainment, animal-mankind relationship precedes recorded history, domestic animals serve us in many ways. Definitions: animal science- field of science that includes the study of all aspects of domestic animals, domesticated animals, 1st dog- 14,000 years ago, maybe 135,00 years, wolf to dog theories- New theory- they did it: dog was the first source of meat, sheep- 10,000 years, first food animal in the us, goats, hogs, & cattle 8500 years. )- how to become more efficient in their nutrition; eating of feces; nutrients are lost in feces: non-ruminant nutrition, physiology (mechanisms of animal life, reproductive physiology, animal health (diseases, parasites, & environmental factors, ethology (animal behavior) Animal science specialties: meat science, dairy products & eggs, processing, distributing, and marketing of finished meat, dairy and egg products, biotechnology, technological applications of modern biology, particularly molecular and cellular biology.
