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the guide - correct answer evaluates institutions' overall animal program and inspects all sites every 6 months, evaluates research protocols and if necessary suspends PHS supported activity Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - correct answer IACUC Animal Care and Facilities Committee - correct answer ACFC (at Rutgers) IACUC - correct answer consists of 5 members, at least 1 vet, 1 scientist, and 1 unaffiliated diuresis cage - correct answer cage where urine flows along the inside surface of the collection funnel and is directed into the urine collection tube; the separating grid prevents feces to pass through animal experimentation - correct answer the scientific study of animals, usually in a laboratory, for the purpose of gaining new biological knowledge or solving specific medical, dental, veterinary, or biological problems laboratory animal care - correct answer the application of veterinary medicine and animal science to the acquisition of laboratory animals and to their management, nutrition, breeding, and diseases laboratory animal medicine - correct answer recognized by the AVMA as the specialty field within veterinary medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases in animals used as subjects in biomedical activities; also encompasses the methods of minimizing pain or discomfort in research animals and the identification of complicating factors in animal research comparative medicine - correct answer the study of nature, cause, and cure of abnormal structure and function in people, animals, and plants for the eventual application to benefit all living things laboratory animal science - correct answer the body of scientific and technical information, knowledge and skills that bears on both laboratory animal care and laboratory animal medicine and that is roughly analogous to "animal science" in the agricultural sector Aristotle - correct answer the founder of biology, studied comparative anatomy Erasistratus - correct answer first person to experiment on living animals Claude Bernard - correct answer person who developed experimental physiology Louis Pasteur - correct answer person who discovered infectious diseases Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources - correct answer ILAR Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care - correct answer AAALAC rights - correct answer a claim that one party may exercise against another within a community of moral agents moral agents - correct answer beings capable of making moral judgements and comprehending moral duty National Institute of Health - correct answer NIH analgesics - correct answer painkillers given after surgery systematics - correct answer the branch of biology concerned with the diversity of life, encompassing taxonomy phylogeny - correct answer evolutionary history of a species or a group of related species epithet - correct answer 2nd word of an individual species' scientific name 200g - correct answer rat weight 6-8 weeks - correct answer sexual maturity for male rats 5 weeks - correct answer first estrus cycle for female rats 34-109 days - correct answer vaginal opening in rats 15-51 days - correct answer testes descend in rats 4-5 days - correct answer estrus cycle of rats 12 hours - correct answer length of estrus in rats 20-22 months - correct answer decrease of female fertility in rats 16-20 month - correct answer decrease of male fertility in rats 100-300 days - correct answer maximum fertility age in rats 19-23 days - correct answer gestation of rats 8-14 pups - correct answer average litter size in rats 5.5 g - correct answer neonate weight of rats 3 weeks - correct answer weaning age of rats, mice, and hamsters Rattus norvegicus - correct answer rat scientific name Mus musculus - correct answer mouse scientific name 3-5 g - correct answer amount of food eaten by mouse per day 6-7 ml - correct answer amount of water drank per mouse each day 30 days - correct answer first estrus cycle of mice 44 days - correct answer sexual maturity of male mice 4-5 days - correct answer estrus cycle length in mice 19-21 days - correct answer gestation length in mice Mesocricetus auratus - correct answer golden or Syrian hamster scientific name Cricetus griseus - correct answer Chinese (little) hamster scientific name Cricetulus migratorius - correct answer Armenian (grey) hamster scientific name Cricetus cricetus - correct answer European hamster scientific name F1 hybrids - correct answer crosses between inbred strains; it cannot be perpetuated cross - correct answer one or more mating units set up with males and females that each have a designated genotype chosen to carry out a particular genetic analysis outcross - correct answer a mating set up between 2 animals or strains considered unrelated to each other backcross - correct answer a cross of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent, in order to achieve offspring with a genetic identity which iss closer to that of the parent; used to create animals with similar genetics of the parents