Fact Sheet Flashcards
What did Louis Pasteur do with Anthrax?
Inject two chickens with the bacteria, one normal another in water. The one in the water died because of low body heat.
What was a highly infectious disease in the 1800’s that did not affect chickens?
Anthrax
Who discovered the pecking order?
T.Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1935
Who was T.Schjelderup-Ebbe?
Discovered Pecking order in 1935
Who was Konrad Lorenz?
Nobel prize winner for showing how ducklings imprinted to parents
Who won a peace prize for showing how ducklings imprinted on parents?
Konrad Lorenz
What is embryology?
The study of the formation and development of embryos
Who was Hieronymus Fabricius
Pioneered Embryology with chicken embryos
Who was Arnold A. Berthold?
Fathered endocrinology. Removed testes on Cock. Viewed effects on loss of sexual apperence. Transplanted other males testes on and viewed the revival of sexual apperance.
Who was the father of genetics?
Johann Gregor Mendel
Who was Johann Gregor Mendel?
Catholic monk that discovered genetic traits and father genetic study
Who thought of Gnotobiotics?
Louis Pasteur
What is Gnotobiotics?
The study of germ free animals
What did Louis Pasteur see as the perfect animal for Gnotobiotics?
Any bird that hatches from an egg, particularly the chicken
Who is Bruce Glick?
Found that the chicken bursa( just in the cloaca) producing B-Lymphocytes(type of white blood cells)
Who found B-lymphocytes?Where?
Bruce Glick, in the bursa
Who found the virus that can cause cancer?
Francis Peyton Rous
What is a ratite?
A family of large flightless birds with flat keeless breast bone
What are the two species of Rhea?
The greater Rhea and the Lesser/Darwin’s Rhea
What is the largest bird of the americas? Found where?
Rhea. On the pampas(plains) of brazil, bolivia, and argentina
How many females will a male Rhea have? And how many eggs will each lay?what is the incubation period?
6 females
15-18 eggs
30-43 days
What are the three species of Kiwi?
Little spotted kiwi,Great spotted Kiwi, and the brown/common Kiwi
What is the smallest Ratite?
The Kiwi
What is the national bird of New Zealand?
The Kiwi
What is unusual about the Kiwi’s reproduction?
- the egg is 10% of body weight when layed
- lays only 1 or 2 eggs
- both ovaries are functional, not just left
- incubation is 75-78 days
- chicks are not fed for the first 6-12 days
What are the three species of the Cassowaries?
“Double wattled” , “Single wattled” , and the “dwarf”
What is the incubation period of the cassowaries?
49 days
What are the reproductive habits of the emu?
- female lays 9-12 eggs
- incubated for 56 days
- perfect temp. For eggs is 91*F
- chicks leave nest after 2-3 days
What is the only Ratite to have 2 toes?
Ostrich
What are some subspecies of the ostrich?
Arabian ostrich, North African, and East African, Somali , and South African, and the Masai
Describe the ostrich’s egg.
- 12-36 per nest
- weighs 3 pounds
- shell is 2 millimeter think
- incubation period is 42 days
Name all the Ratites.
Emus, Ostrich,Rhea,Kiwi,Cassowaries
What is vitamin K?
Clots blood, found in green leaves
Who was A. Churchill?
Made a vaccine for Marek’s disease
