Chapter 7 - Husbandry

Question 1

Any drug used to treat infection caused by bacteria or other micro organisms

Answer 1

Antibiotic

Question 2

A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen

Answer 2

Antibodies

Question 3

The study of domestic animal behavior

Answer 3

Applied ethology

Question 4

A negative experience that may be painful, frightening, or nauseating. It may involve the senses

Answer 4

Aversive event

Question 5

The type of conditioning Ivan Pavlov demonstrating, in which reflex-like response can be stimulated by a neutral stimulus

Answer 5

Classical conditioning

Question 6

Observable difference in an animals normal function or state of health that indicates the presence of a bodily disorder or disease

Answer 6

Clinical sign

Question 7

State of being other than that of complete healthy. Disturbance of normal function of the body or its parts

Answer 7

Disease

Question 8

An animals place in the social ranking (pecking order)

Answer 8

Dominance

Question 9

A catalog or inventory of all of the behaviors an animal exhibits in its natural environment

Answer 9

Ethogram

Question 10

The study of animals in their natural surroundings (applied)

Answer 10

Ethology

Question 11

The factor that causes a disease or the study of the factors that cause disease

Answer 11

Etiology

Question 12

The distance which an animal is caused to flee from an intruder

Answer 12

Flight zone

Question 13

Operant conditioning; an animals ability to eventually ignore something that occurs often

Answer 13

Habituation

Question 14

Learning that has restrictive conditions and times when it can occur

Answer 14

Imprint learning

Question 15

Diseases caused by living organisms, which involve and multiply in or on the body and result in damage to the body

Answer 15

Infectious disease

Question 16

Abnormal changes in body organs because of injury or disease

Answer 16

Lesion

Question 17

The examination of a body after death

Answer 17

Necropsy

Question 18

Anything new or sudden in an animals environment

Answer 18

Novelty

Question 19

An organism that lives at the expense of a host organism

Answer 19

Parasite

Question 20

Any living disease-producing agent

Answer 20

Pathogen

Question 21

A craving for and willingness to eat unnatural feedstuffs. Often caused by nutrient deficiencies.

Answer 21

Pica

Question 22

A nonfunctional, repetitive, and intentional behavior. Are often rhythmic

Answer 22

Stereotypic behavior

Question 23

A physical, emotional, or chemical factor causing body or mental strain or tension

Answer 23

Stress

Question 24

Animal, usually an arthropod, that transfers an infectious agent from one host to another

Answer 24

Vector

Question 25

A DNA molecule that carries foreign DNA in a host cell, replicated inside a bacterial cell, and produces many copies of itself

Answer 25

Vector

Question 26

The length of time an antibiotic must be administered or fed to an animal before the animal can be legally slaughtered

Answer 26

Withdrawal time

Question 27

The ability to be passed from animals to humans under natural conditions

Answer 27

Zoonotic

Question 28

A drug or chemical agent used to kill or remove internal parasites

Answer 28

Anthelmintic

Question 29

A foreign substance, that when introduced into tissue or blood, causes the formation of antibodies

Answer 29

Antigen

Question 30

Medicinal products used primarily to prevent disease. Includes serums, vaccines, antigen, antitoxins, etc.

Answer 30

Biologicals

Question 31

Chemical agents used to treat or prevent disease

Answer 31

Chemotherapeutics

Question 32

To give fluid by mouth

Answer 32

Drench

Question 33

The sum total of all external conditions that affect the well-being and performance of an animal.

Answer 33

Environment

Question 34

The ability to learn to adjust successfully to conditions or situations

Answer 34

Intelligence

Question 35

Measurement of illness

Answer 35

Morbidity

Question 36

The number of animals in a group that become sick over a specified period of time

Answer 36

Morbidity rate

Question 37

Diarrhea; a profuse watery discharge from the intestines

Answer 37

Scours

Question 38

Under the skin

Answer 38

Subcutaneous

Question 39

Range in temperature when rate and efficiency of gain is maximized; also known as the comfort zone

Answer 39

Thermo-neutral zone

Question 40

Suspension of attenuated or killed microbes or toxins administered to induce active immunity

Answer 40

Vaccine

Question 41

Causing ultramicroscopic bundle of genetic material capable of multiplying only in living cells

Answer 41

Virus