LAT Prep questions with accurate answers
1 kg = how many grams? Ans✓✓✓ 1000
1 mL = how many liters? Ans✓✓✓ 1/1000
42C equals what in Fahrenheit? Ans✓✓✓ 107.6
72F equals what in Celsius? Ans✓✓✓ 22.2
A defined flora animal is the same as...? Ans✓✓✓ A gnotobiotic animal
A kg is approximately equal to how many lbs? Ans✓✓✓ 2.2
A lack of dietary iron can cause what disease? Ans✓✓✓ Anemia
A permanent change in an inherited or genetic factor is called what?
Ans✓✓✓ Mutation
About how many centimeters are in an inch? Ans✓✓✓ 2.5
Acepromazine, diazepam, and xylazine are all commonly used:
Ans✓✓✓ Tranquilizers
,Acid and ______ are sometimes used to treat the water in animal
facilities to prevent the growth of pathogens Ans✓✓✓ Chlorine
After transportation, the time it takes animals to adjust to their new
surroundings is called the: Ans✓✓✓ Acclimation period
Albino animals are particularly sensitive to: Ans✓✓✓ Light
Amino acids join together to form: Ans✓✓✓ Proteins
An 8kg dog weighs how many pounds? Ans✓✓✓ 17.6
An exercise which involved the mock destruction of part of the facility
due to an earthquake is an example of: Ans✓✓✓ A drill
An organism that does not cause disease by itself but can transmit
another disease causing organism is called a what? Ans✓✓✓ Vector
Animal census refers to: Ans✓✓✓ The number of individual animals or
cages per investigator per room
Animal quarantine rooms and rooms containing animals experimentally
infected with pathogens are normally kept under what type of pressure?
Ans✓✓✓ Negative
,Animals from what source are most likely to harbor disease causing
agents? Ans✓✓✓ Wild caught animals
Animals should never be ordered without what? Ans✓✓✓ An approved
IACUC protocol
Animals with which disease have increased urine output and increased
water consumption? Ans✓✓✓ Diabetes
Anthelmintics and miticides are examples of what? Ans✓✓✓
Parasiticides
Appropriate caging should balance the needs of the animal with:
Ans✓✓✓ The ability to provide for sanitization
Aquatic caging must have which two features? Ans✓✓✓ A water
source and drain
As with mice, what substance is found in the tears and saliva of rats that
causes a red staining around the eyes? Ans✓✓✓ Porphyrin
At most institutions, who must review and monitor the animal use
protocols at an institution? Ans✓✓✓ Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee
, Baby pigs have brown fat which is used to help maintain their body
temperature Ans✓✓✓ False
Before disposing of animal shipping containers, an animal technician
should: Ans✓✓✓ Double-check the container for any remaining
animals
Before opening a container of rodents, the container should be:
Ans✓✓✓ Disinfected
Beyond food, water, shelter, and healthcare requirements, to comply
with the AWA, what must be provided to dogs in a laboratory animal
research facility? Ans✓✓✓ Opportunities for exercise
Carbohydrate is stored in the body mainly as: Ans✓✓✓ Glycogen
Conditionally acceptable methods of euthanasia must be approved by
which group? Ans✓✓✓ The IACUC
Decapitation is the most common method of euthanizing mice, true or
false? Ans✓✓✓ False
Exposure to cedar wood shavings causes what problem? Ans✓✓✓
Abnormal levels of liver enzymes
1 kg = how many grams? Ans✓✓✓ 1000
1 mL = how many liters? Ans✓✓✓ 1/1000
42C equals what in Fahrenheit? Ans✓✓✓ 107.6
72F equals what in Celsius? Ans✓✓✓ 22.2
A defined flora animal is the same as...? Ans✓✓✓ A gnotobiotic animal
A kg is approximately equal to how many lbs? Ans✓✓✓ 2.2
A lack of dietary iron can cause what disease? Ans✓✓✓ Anemia
A permanent change in an inherited or genetic factor is called what?
Ans✓✓✓ Mutation
About how many centimeters are in an inch? Ans✓✓✓ 2.5
Acepromazine, diazepam, and xylazine are all commonly used:
Ans✓✓✓ Tranquilizers
,Acid and ______ are sometimes used to treat the water in animal
facilities to prevent the growth of pathogens Ans✓✓✓ Chlorine
After transportation, the time it takes animals to adjust to their new
surroundings is called the: Ans✓✓✓ Acclimation period
Albino animals are particularly sensitive to: Ans✓✓✓ Light
Amino acids join together to form: Ans✓✓✓ Proteins
An 8kg dog weighs how many pounds? Ans✓✓✓ 17.6
An exercise which involved the mock destruction of part of the facility
due to an earthquake is an example of: Ans✓✓✓ A drill
An organism that does not cause disease by itself but can transmit
another disease causing organism is called a what? Ans✓✓✓ Vector
Animal census refers to: Ans✓✓✓ The number of individual animals or
cages per investigator per room
Animal quarantine rooms and rooms containing animals experimentally
infected with pathogens are normally kept under what type of pressure?
Ans✓✓✓ Negative
,Animals from what source are most likely to harbor disease causing
agents? Ans✓✓✓ Wild caught animals
Animals should never be ordered without what? Ans✓✓✓ An approved
IACUC protocol
Animals with which disease have increased urine output and increased
water consumption? Ans✓✓✓ Diabetes
Anthelmintics and miticides are examples of what? Ans✓✓✓
Parasiticides
Appropriate caging should balance the needs of the animal with:
Ans✓✓✓ The ability to provide for sanitization
Aquatic caging must have which two features? Ans✓✓✓ A water
source and drain
As with mice, what substance is found in the tears and saliva of rats that
causes a red staining around the eyes? Ans✓✓✓ Porphyrin
At most institutions, who must review and monitor the animal use
protocols at an institution? Ans✓✓✓ Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee
, Baby pigs have brown fat which is used to help maintain their body
temperature Ans✓✓✓ False
Before disposing of animal shipping containers, an animal technician
should: Ans✓✓✓ Double-check the container for any remaining
animals
Before opening a container of rodents, the container should be:
Ans✓✓✓ Disinfected
Beyond food, water, shelter, and healthcare requirements, to comply
with the AWA, what must be provided to dogs in a laboratory animal
research facility? Ans✓✓✓ Opportunities for exercise
Carbohydrate is stored in the body mainly as: Ans✓✓✓ Glycogen
Conditionally acceptable methods of euthanasia must be approved by
which group? Ans✓✓✓ The IACUC
Decapitation is the most common method of euthanizing mice, true or
false? Ans✓✓✓ False
Exposure to cedar wood shavings causes what problem? Ans✓✓✓
Abnormal levels of liver enzymes
