Fact Sheet

Question 0

What did Louis Pasteur do with Anthrax?

Answer 0

Inject two chickens with the bacteria, one normal another in water. The one in the water died because of low body heat.

Question 1

What was a highly infectious disease in the 1800’s that did not affect chickens?

Answer 1

Anthrax

Question 2

Who discovered the pecking order?

Answer 2

T.Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1935

Question 3

Who was T.Schjelderup-Ebbe?

Answer 3

Discovered Pecking order in 1935

Question 4

Who was Konrad Lorenz?

Answer 4

Nobel prize winner for showing how ducklings imprinted to parents

Question 5

Who won a peace prize for showing how ducklings imprinted on parents?

Answer 5

Konrad Lorenz

Question 6

What is embryology?

Answer 6

The study of the formation and development of embryos

Question 7

Who was Hieronymus Fabricius

Answer 7

Pioneered Embryology with chicken embryos

Question 8

Who was Arnold A. Berthold?

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Who was the father of genetics?

Answer 9

Johann Gregor Mendel

Question 10

Who was Johann Gregor Mendel?

Answer 10

Catholic monk that discovered genetic traits and father genetic study

Question 11

Who thought of Gnotobiotics?

Answer 11

Louis Pasteur

Question 12

What is Gnotobiotics?

Answer 12

The study of germ free animals

Question 13

What did Louis Pasteur see as the perfect animal for Gnotobiotics?

Answer 13

Any bird that hatches from an egg, particularly the chicken

Question 14

Who is Bruce Glick?

Answer 14

Found that the chicken bursa( just in the cloaca) producing B-Lymphocytes(type of white blood cells)

Question 15

Who found B-lymphocytes?Where?

Answer 15

Bruce Glick, in the bursa

Question 16

Who found the virus that can cause cancer?

Answer 16

Francis Peyton Rous

Question 19

What is a ratite?

Answer 19

A family of large flightless birds with flat keeless breast bone

Question 20

What are the two species of Rhea?

Answer 20

The greater Rhea and the Lesser/Darwin’s Rhea

Question 21

What is the largest bird of the americas? Found where?

Answer 21

Rhea. On the pampas(plains) of brazil, bolivia, and argentina

Question 22

How many females will a male Rhea have? And how many eggs will each lay?what is the incubation period?

Answer 22

6 females
15-18 eggs
30-43 days

Question 23

What are the three species of Kiwi?

Answer 23

Little spotted kiwi,Great spotted Kiwi, and the brown/common Kiwi

Question 24

What is the smallest Ratite?

Answer 24

The Kiwi

Question 25

What is the national bird of New Zealand?

Answer 25

The Kiwi

Question 26

What is unusual about the Kiwi’s reproduction?

Answer 26

• 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

Question 27

What are the three species of the Cassowaries?

Answer 27

“Double wattled” , “Single wattled” , and the “dwarf”

Question 28

What is the incubation period of the cassowaries?

Answer 28

49 days

Question 29

What are the reproductive habits of the emu?

Answer 29

• female lays 9-12 eggs
• incubated for 56 days
• perfect temp. For eggs is 91*F
• chicks leave nest after 2-3 days

Question 30

What is the only Ratite to have 2 toes?

Answer 30

Ostrich

Question 31

What are some subspecies of the ostrich?

Answer 31

Arabian ostrich, North African, and East African, Somali , and South African, and the Masai

Question 32

Describe the ostrich’s egg.

Answer 32

• 12-36 per nest
• weighs 3 pounds
• shell is 2 millimeter think
• incubation period is 42 days

Question 33

Name all the Ratites.

Answer 33

Emus, Ostrich,Rhea,Kiwi,Cassowaries

Question 41

What is vitamin K?

Answer 41

Clots blood, found in green leaves

Question 43

Who was A. Churchill?

Answer 43

Made a vaccine for Marek’s disease