ANSC 1011 : Exam 1
Document Summary
The most important thing from a society"s standpoint about animals is food; the next is companionship. The relationship between mankind and animals precedes recorded history. The relationship between began as hunter-gatherers; they moved and traveled with the animal herds. All people are dependent on agriculture for their existence. Animal science-the study of all aspects of domesticated animals. The first dog was domesticated about 14,000 years ago. A new theory is that the wolf helped to domesticate themselves; they would follow the people and eat scrap food. In russia, they are doing genetic studies on foxes and were breeding the tamer ones to other tames ones--they began to look and act like dogs. The goats, hogs, and cattle around 8,500 years ago. Ruminant-four part stomach for fermentation, they eat grass and forage: they can digest cellulose. Meat science, dairy products & eggs (oricessing, distribution, & marketing of finished meat, dairy. Biotechnology (technological applications of modern biology, particularly molecular and cellular biology)
