ACBS Final Exam: Complete Study Guide with Verified Questions & Answers | 2025 Exam UPDATES. VERIFIED.

ACBS Final Exam: Complete Study Guide with Verified Questions & Answers | 2025 Exam UPDATES. VERIFIED. About This Guide: This ACBS Final Study Guide is designed to help students prepare for their Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences final exam. It includes verified questions and answers that cover all essential topics such as animal physiology, anatomy, biomedical science concepts, and disease mechanisms. Whether you're preparing for the final or reviewing key concepts for the last time, this guide will help you study efficiently and pass with confidence. According to Evolution by Natural Selection, what is "fitness"? - -the extent to which an individual's traits (genes) are represented in subsequent generations due to better survival or reproduction According to research on hunter-gatherer cultures today, which of the following would NOT be a reason for a hunter-gatherer family to keep dogs? - -Dogs serve as pets and play companions for children in the family Although it is unclear whether goat attunement to humans is due to domestication, experiments that have tested goat's attunement to human faces and body postures indicate that goats - -Lec27. goat/sheep attunement Although studies show that dogs have an emotional attachment to their owners, according to one study, which do dogs work harder for? - -Food treats Although we can be fairly certain that the early Egyptians used donkeys to explore the western part of the Saharan desert, the harsh conditions of the desert have destroyed any and all archeological evidence of these travel routes. - -FALSE An efficient hunting-gathering mode of subsistence among our ancestors involved - -a sexual division of labor where men provided food from hunting and women provided food from gathering Archeological evidence from the Neolithic shows that - -the first permanent settlements were still small, consisting of about 20 mud-walled houses. As an example of a close relationship between sheep and sheep-owner, the 2001 epidemic of Hoof & Mouth disease led to a large increase in sheep-owner suicide. - -True Camels have the ability to store excess water in their hump. - -FALSE Cats spread from Egypt because they were considered very valuable and the Egyptian kings were able to trade them for gold. - -Lec37. cat spread, breeds, domesticated? Domestication of the Dromedary camel opened up early trade routes between Arabia and the rest of the Old World because - -ALL CHOICES ARE CORRECT During the dog domestication process, dogs became "attuned" to humans, becoming skilled at responding accurately to all of the following human behaviors except - -Clapping Evidence of dog and human attunement to each other is shown in all EXCEPT one of the following: - -Lec17. dog-human attunement: emotions, vocal Evidence shows that "pole-axing" is an ancient technique for castrating pigs. - -FALSE Evidence that suggests an early mutualism between humans and dogs includes - -"wolf-dog" skeletons were found at mammoth megasites where humans killed and butchered mammoth (but did not butcher the dogs), child footprints and "wolf-dog" paw prints were found together in Chauvet cave, humans and dogs are rarely depicted in cave art, suggesting they were in the same symbolic category as kin (ALL CHOICES CORRECT) Following the US Civil War, long cattle drives began in order to - -Unit 5- INDUSTRIALISTS Lec52. Commodification of Animals-agribusiness Hallan Cemi is one of the earliest Neolithic settlement sites (discovered in Easter Turkey), dating back to 12,000 BP. Why is this site important to our understanding of pig domestication? - -Lec32. pig pre & early domestication Humans generally place animals into different categories according to their use. For example, animals considered as pets are generally not eaten. However, in some cultures animals have multiple uses, and as a result a pet animal might also be eaten. One example of a country where pet dogs are also eaten is - -South Korea In many non-Western cultures, non-human animals are... - -incorporated into their spiritual or religious beliefs In Nisbett and Cohen's research, Culture of Honor .... - -(all choices are correct) is more typical of the southern than northern U.S., can be traced to an ancestry of herding , and is a response to the threat of livestock poaching In the Russian silver fox experiments, at what generation did the fox`s first start to show taming, surprisingly? - -the genetic influence on fox temperament the contribution of the early environment or rearing experiences to fox temperament if the temperament of fox kits from the "tame" line could be changed by being reared by a fox mother from the "aggressive" line In the US, the adoption of the Spanish horse for hunting occurred primarily among - -The Great Plains Indians In the video "And Man Created Dog" what traits lead to wolves developing a survival advantage around humans? - -Least aggressive, least territorial, most curious In the video "The Beak of the Finch: Speciation of finches on the Galapagos", when evolutionary biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant quantify dates breeding took place, number of years bred, number of offspring, and how many offspring survived to sexual maturity, they are: - -Analyzing evolutionary fitness In what area of the world were the earliest signs of domesticated plants found? - -Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia One major consequence of animal domestication was the increased risk of disease transmission between animals and humans. Today, we recognize this connection between human and animal health under the name - -One Health