Ch 23 Pocket Pets

Question 1

barbering

Answer 1

dominant animals bite/chew fur of subordinates

Question 2

cheek pouch

Answer 2

space in oral cavity of hamsters that carries food/bedding

Question 3

ectotherm

Answer 3

internal temp varies w/ environment (cold-blooded)

Question 4

endotherm

Answer 4

animal that generates its own heat to maintain constant internal body temperature (warm-blooded)

Question 5

in vitro

Answer 5

outside living organisms (in test tubes)

Question 6

in vivo

Answer 6

inside living organisms

Question 7

pinky

Answer 7

mouse/rat hairless neonate

Question 8

pithing

Answer 8

destroying brain and spinal cord by thrusting blunt needle into cranium

Question 9

rosette

Answer 9

swirl hair growth pattern on guinea pigs

Question 10

scruff

Answer 10

thick skin of neck animal can be grasped by

Question 11

rodent

Answer 11

gnawing animals w/continuously growing incisors

Question 12

ferrets

Answer 12

mammals in weasel/mink family

• can develop hyperestrogenism

Question 13

reptiles

Answer 13

ectotherm vertebrates , 4 types:

1. turtles
2. snakes
3. lizards
4. crocodiles

Question 14

ecdysis

Answer 14

shedding/molting

Question 15

amphibians

Answer 15

live in water as larvae
- adults partially/completely on land
- no scales

Question 16

plastron

Answer 16

ventral region of turtle shell

Question 17

axenic

Answer 17

germ free

Question 18

night stool

Answer 18

rabbit feces that is passed at night and softer than normal

Question 19

anogenital distance

Answer 19

area between anus and genitals used to determine sex

Question 20

dusting

Answer 20

how chinchillas clean themselves

Question 21

rudimentary

Answer 21

incompletely developed

Question 22

vector

Answer 22

something that carries disease from one animal to another

Question 23

control

Answer 23

the standard normal tests are compared against

Question 24

spectacle

Answer 24

brille

Question 25

dysecdysis

Answer 25

wry neck (torsion of neck)

Question 26

estivation

Answer 26

hibernating in summer

Question 27

ambient

Answer 27

surrounding

Question 28

hemipenes

Answer 28

paired vascular sacs in male snakes + lizards

Question 29

dewlaps

Answer 29

on female rabbits

Question 30

urostyle

Answer 30

long caudal vertebrae on some amphibians

Question 31

fomite

Answer 31

inanimate carrier of diseases

Question 32

furslip

Answer 32

shedding from rough handling of chinchillas

Question 33

propagate

Answer 33

reproduce

Question 34

carapace

Answer 34

dorsal region of turtle shell

Question 35

torticollis

Answer 35

contracted state of the cervical muscles producing torsion of the neck

Question 36

vector

Answer 36

organism or vehicle that carries infectious agent from one animal to another

Question 37

progeny

Answer 37

descendants

Question 38

calvarium

Answer 38

top of skull

Question 39

teratology

Answer 39

study of embryo development

Question 40

murine

Answer 40

of mice + rats