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1
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Animal testing is required prior to most clinical studies and is mandated by:

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Federal Law

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The two most common uses of animals in research include

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Drug Research and Vaccine Biology

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As household income decreases meat consumption increases/decreases,and dairy consumption increases/decreases

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decreases, decreases

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Animals used in dairying vary considerably and reflects environment and resources. The top five animals contributing to global milk supply include

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Cattle, camel, goats, sheep, water buffalo

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The value of animal transportation is greater/lesser/equivalent (select one) transfer or is the most efficient form of nutrient transfer (select the correct order of terms for the above statement).

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lateral transfer or conversion. Lateral

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process by which diversity is introduced within animals.

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Evolution

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The three phases of animal development

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Evolution/Domestication/Production

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Consider the descriptions of the contributions of animal products to world and US food supply

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Animal products contribute a greater percentage of calories to food supply in the US as compared to their contribution to world food supply.
Animal products contribute to a greater percentage of total protein than total calories to world food supply

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According to the theory of evolution:

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Successful organisms emerge through modifications that increase chances of survival

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In evolutionary theory, modifications that occur are known as ______________ and will become more commone within a population through the process of ________________ selection, when the modification offers an advantage to the organisms survival.

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mutations/natural

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Process by which a population of animals becomes adapted to humans and a captive environment, occurring over generations

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Domestication

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Animals that have never undergone domestication

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Wild

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Animals that show docility toward humans. Docility may be temporary and does not occur in subsequent generations

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Tame

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Domesticated animals that have returned to a wild state following isolation from human interaction

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Feral

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The period of learning in which an animals social group is defined, otherwise known as______, contributed to the successful domestication of animals.

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Imprinting

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Most animals can distinguish between the tastes bitter, sour, sweet, and salty. An exception is ___________, which have poorly developed sense of taste

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Poultry

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17
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The visual awareness of dogs is perceived through

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Contrasts and boundaries

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18
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The theory of meat-eating in the human diet states

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Meat provided increased calories and led to decreased stomach size and redirection of calories for brain development
Meat provided increased calories and led to decreased stomach size as less calories were needed for digestion.

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Consider the listing of behavioral characteristics. Select the lists of characteristics that would facilitate domestication

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large social groups, hierarchical group structure, promiscuous mating, altricial young

males dominate over females, sexual signals by posture, imprinting period, precocial young

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In evolutionary theory, modifications that occur are known as ______________ and will become more commone within a population through the process of ________________ selection, when the modification offers an advantage to the organisms survival.

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mutations/natural

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Behaviors are affected by an animals____and the______

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Genetics/Environment

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Behaviors that are predominantly influenced by the animal’s______can be increased or decreased within the population by______selection.

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Genetics/Artificial

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Many individuals have contributed to the study of behavior. John Ray

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Identified that complex behaviors develop without learning.

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You recently decided to add a new breed of sheep to your current flock. You observe that the new breed is more flighty and less docile than your current breed. This behavior is seen in the offspring as well, despite no change in management practices, indicating that the behavior is greatly influenced by the animals

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genetics

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True or False: Enclosure of wild animals contributed to the domestication process
True
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True or False: Animals with altricial young and high agility were ideally domesticated
False
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True or False: Although horses were domesticated for food, buffalo of equitorial regions were domesticated for draft.
True
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The ___________ and ___________ approaches to defining animal welfare do not consider the modification of behaviors that occurs with domestication
Animal Choice and Nature of the Species Approach
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The Five Freedoms approach of animal welfare
``` Freedom from hunger and thirst Freedom from discomfort Freedom from pain, injury, and disease Freedom to express normal behavior Freedom from fear and distress ```
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Although the origins of domestication are not known, which of the following most likely contributed:
Capture and/or enclosure of animals near human settlements
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A limitation to the Biological Function Approach in assessing animal welfare is:
It does not consider the social aspects of animal behavior
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The Animal Welfare Act defines animal as any live or dead
Rabbit, Monkey, Dog, and Cat
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Which of the following defines an essential nutrient
Not produced in sufficient quantities within the body | Not produced within the body
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The process involved in ______contribute to the genetic diversity of living systems, whereas______considers the process by which striking variation arises within species
Evolution/Domestication
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Animal are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act when used for
Food
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Humans and other animals have what type of relationship
Symbiotic- is of mutual benefit and has been cultivated over 1000's of years-Interdependent on one another
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Humans rely on domesticated animals for
1. Food- dairy, meat, eggs 2. Fiber- wool, feathers, hides 3. Companionship 4. Protection 5. Transportation 6. Services, therapy 7. Draft, fuel 8. Research 9. Entertainment- hunting, zoos 10. Nutrients 11. Slaughter by products 12. models for teaching 13. Capital-financial stability
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Eating meat allowed what
guts to shrink and become more digestible
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Protein did what
improved nutrient intake and health benefits
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U.S. consumes _____ of their calories from animal products compared to the world's ___
67%, 33%
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U.S. consumes ___ protein from animal products compared to the world's ___
70%, 30%
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As we make more money we spend more money on what?
animal products
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What influences trends?
1. Religion 2. Availability of animal- geographic location 3. Marketing/advertising 4. Alternative food choices 5. income/economics 6. Media 7. Perceptions
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The three types of animal fibers
1. Wool 2. Mohair and Cashmere 3. Angora
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Define wool:
most dominant but only represents 5% of textiles
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Where does cashmere and mohair come from?
goats
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Where does angora come from?
Undercoats of rabbits
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Define conservation of agriculture
sustainable practices for smallholder farming systems, for erosion control, noxious weed control and pasture management
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Why do we use animals in research?
1. serves as models for humans and other animals 2. Need the numbers 3. Discover how life works
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Animals not protected under Animal Welfare Act
Mice, rats, birds, reptiles
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Animals covered under Animal Welfare Act
Dogs, Non-human primates, rabbits, pigs, sheep, and other farm animals
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Animal research benefits are
1. over 80 medicines developed for humans are used to treat animals 2. cataract surgery, orthopedic surgery, cardiac pacemaker, diabetes therapy, in-vitro fertilization
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Animals appeared when?
Cavarian explosion
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How long ago did the first animal appear and what animal was it like?
231 billion years ago; reptile like animal
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When did domestication begin?
31,000-5000 years ago
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What was the first animal domesticated and how long ago?
Wolf; 12,000-15,000 but new study suggests 31,000 years ago
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The four people who have contributed to evolution
Darwin, Wallace, Wells, and Matthews
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Darwin's greatest contribution was what?
natural selection
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Why is tree of life so controversial?
States that all organisms come from same origin
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Modifications=
Mutations
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Artificial selection goes against what?
natural selection
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Natural selection works on what?
existing variations
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The strongest desire for any animal
to survive
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The second strongest desire is what?
to reproduce
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What is needed for animals to reproduce?
Proper habitat and feed
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Why is animals mortality high?
Not all offspring can survive; animal reproduces above capacity
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Why does the environment have to stay the same?
In order for the new variations to be adopted
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Domestication needs what?
Species to change over space and time
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Prominent markers in domestication
Tameness, Docility, changes of coat, tail, head spotting, floppy ears
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The theory of domestication is supported by what?
Farm fox experiments
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Scientist known for the farm fox experiments?
Demetri
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The stages of animal keeping
1. Domestication | 2. Breeding
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Domestication at first was what?
Unintentional
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Major species in domestication
cattle, hog, sheep, horse, goats
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Minor species in domestication
donkey, yak, camel, llamas, reindeer
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Define precocial
maturity at birth
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define altricial:
greater reliance on maternal care
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Domestication reduces what?
Animal's flight zone and aggression
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Domestication is what
passing of docility from generation to generation
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Feral is what
an animal that was once domesticated but returned to wild
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Mortality in domesticated pigs
10%
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Mortality in wild pigs
50%
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Domestication causes what to happen to the brain
causes brain size to decrease
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Population expansion caused what
migration with animals not capable, hunting no longer able to be sustained, increased community living around water resources
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Archaeological Evidence:
changes in skeletal size, changes in horn shape and size, male and female ratios
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Why are the animals all around the world?
Human migration
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Pigs in U.S. traced back to what?
Descendants of pigs in Europe
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Cattle trace back to what?
a herd of 80 head which existed until 1627
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Dogs trace back to what?
One species of wolf
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Domestication is what?
A gradual event therefore a precise timeline can not be achieved
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Animal behavior is
both physical and social actions
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Animal behaviorist was once know as
pseudoscience
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What are animal instincts?
behaviors that animals are born with
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believed only humans were aware of self-awareness
Descartes
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believed some animals have behavior that they are born with
Ray
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believed animals have common behaviors
Darwin
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What affects behavior
Environment and genetics
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Environment and genetics affect what
Phenotype of an animal
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Behavior can not be eliminated with
selection but can be decreased
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Define: imprinting
learns its species and social order and what animal does, strong in precocial young
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Mechanisms controlling behavior
comparative psychology
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Biological basis of behavior
Sociobiology
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Relationship between behavior and environment
Behavioral ecology
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behavior of animal in its natural environment employs the development and use of ethograms
Ethology
105
take into a count behaviors of animal in typical and usual habitat
applied ethology
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animals perceive environment through what
senses
107
Hearing depends on what
Ear position
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What is the Flehmeri response
Lips curling often occurs during mating season
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What organ do humans not have for olfactory
V organ
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Why are cattle sensitive
Layer underneath skin
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Grooming reduces what
aggression
112
define umami
meat taste
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What allows us to taste umami
glumate
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dolphins have greater sensitivity to what
salty taste
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Dogs detect what taste
sweet
116
Birds are sensitive to what
vision
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Associated with predator type animals; can distinguish boundaries because of depth vision
Binocular vision
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Have greater depth vision than monocular
binocular vision
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Associated with central nervous system
Bio rhythms
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Allows us to determine if animals are nocturnal
Cricadian rhythm
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Animals can go without water for how long
7 days
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Animals that go into deep sleep
humans, dogs, poultry, hogs
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Animals that can not go into deep sleep
cattle, sheep, horses, and goats
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What can't sheep, cattle, horses, and goats go into deep sleep
Ruminant digestive system is always active
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laying on sternum but light deep sleep
sternal recompsy
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lay on side but can't do it for long periods of time
cateral recompsy
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social hierarchy, very linear but can be circular,
social structure
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imprinting allows animals to learn what
social structure
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Use stimuli to get response from animal
conditioning
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repetitive behavior/reward form of learning
trial and error
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getting animals use to a stimuli
habituation
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Critical periods of learning; short periods of time can occur within a few hours of birth
development of behavior
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Animals should not suffer unnecessarily and under human care should be provided with an adequate environment and provisions to meet their physical and behavioral needs
animal welfare
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animals have intrinsic rights to life and liberty just as humans
animal rights
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welfare defined by emotions: anger, fear, joy and happiness
feelings based
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Wants to increase positive emotions and decrease negative emotions
feelings based
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improve welfare by respecting nature of the animal= natural environment and natural ways
Nature of the species
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Name the five freedoms
1. Freedom from hunger and thirst 2. freedom from discomfort 3. freedom from pain, injury, and disease 4. freedom to express normal behavior 5. freedom from fear and distress
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allow animal to select or choose its own resources, space, flooring, parturition sites
animal choices
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are there biological costs associated with the environment? Difficulty in adaptation generates welfare problems
biological function
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Why do scientists like biological function
They like it since it can be measured and is objective
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One problem with biological function is what
not concerned with social environment of the animal
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Stereotypical behavior can not be getting rid but can what
be modified
144
relationship between the body and food
nutrition
145
what experiment was conducted in the book of Daniel in the Bible
One group of soldiers ate vegetables and the other group of soldiers fatty foods Group that ate vegetables had more energy
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recognized that children need more food than adults and have higher bmr
Hippocrates
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developed estimated heat involved in CO2. Calorie= material substance
Lavosier
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designed experiment and gave single component of food to an animal
Magendie
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Was first county that focused on how to make animals more efficient; learned about different classifications of food
Germany Industry Shift
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When was the vitamin breakthrough
1880s
151
Tested chickens and found that brown rice had element that was the vitamin thaimine
Christian Eijkman
152
credited with initial studies of Vitamin A
Stephen Babcock
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use of food or feed are consumed, metabolized, assimilated and waste products eliminated
nutrition
154
supports growth, tissue maintenance and repair and extension of products
nutrition
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nondispensible; body doesn't make enough
essential
156
dispensible
nonessential
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functions of nutrients
structure components, sources of energy, regulatory functions
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What nutrient does not have a class of being essential or nonessential
carbohydrates
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function of the carbon skeleton
energy
160
Protein
4
161
carbohydrates
4
162
lipids
9
163
breakdown=
catabolism
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buildup=
buildup
165
amount of heat required to raise temperature of one gram of water form 14.5-15.5 C
calorie
166
1000 cal=1 Cal=
4.184 joules
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Digestable energy=
GE- feces
168
Metabolism energy=
Ge- feces-urine
169
net energy=
Ge-feces-urine-heat off body
170
Net energy goes toward what
maintenance | growth, reproduction, lactation
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vitamins aren't detected by what
proximal analysis
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Name the six nutrients
``` lipids carbohydrates protein vitamins water minerals ```
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is essential to all living things
water
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required for reactions of the body
water
175
maintains constant body temperature
water
176
transports nutrients
water
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Animals can not survive a week without this nutrient
water
178
What can not be dissolved in water
fats
179
how the body controls its temperature
sweating panting rolling in mud licking themselves
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Body can store fat infinitely but not what
carbohydrates

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