Increasing Repro Efficiency and the Use of ARTS (3)

Question 1

how do we measure repro efficiency?

Answer 1

conception rate, pregnancy rate, insemination rate, cost of repro success, vet costs, success of live offspring

Question 2

Define ARTS

Answer 2

artifical repro technologies

Question 3

define artificial insemiantion

Answer 3

introducing semen into the repro tract of the female without the use of the male

Question 4

define donor

Answer 4

an animal who is used for flushing and you are removing oocytes or embryos from her repro tract

Question 5

define estrous/ovulation synchronization

Answer 5

bringing all the ladies into heat or have them ovulate at the same time, or knowing the time in which they wil do so

Question 6

define superovulation

Answer 6

causing the ovaries to ovulate more than one oocyte at a time

Question 7

define intra cytoplasmic sperm injection

Answer 7

injecting the DNA of the sperm into the oocyte to artifically fertilize the oocyte

Question 8

define flushing

Answer 8

removing either embryos or oocytes from a female

Question 9

define in vitro fertilization

Answer 9

creating embryos inside of the body of the animla

Question 10

define in vitro embryo production

Answer 10

joinging oocyte and sperm in petri dish

Question 11

define in vitro maturation

Answer 11

oocytes collected and matrued outside of the body

Question 12

define in vivo fertilization

Answer 12

placing sperm into the tract of a superovulated female for fertilization

Question 13

define transvaginal oocyte retrieval

Answer 13

removing oocytes surgically using ultrasound

Question 14

define oocyte pickup

Answer 14

picking up oocytes in a female

Question 15

define sexing of semen and embryos

Answer 15

sorting of semen and embryos

Question 16

define semen, embryos, and oocytes crypto preservation

Answer 16

freezing semen, embryos, or oocytes for storage

Question 17

define emrbyo transfer

Answer 17

moving embryos from one female to another female hoping for a live animal to be born after gestation

Question 18

define multiple ovulation embryo transfer

Answer 18

when overstimulating the ovaries for oocyte production and then trasnferrin embryos from the donor female to the recipient female

Question 19

define embryo genomics

Answer 19

testing the embryo for expected performance once the animal becomes mature in the future

Question 20

define cloning

Answer 20

to be able to make an identical individual from the original animal

Question 21

deifne somatic nell nuclear transfer

Answer 21

transfer of nucleus to create clone

Question 22

define transgenesis

Answer 22

creating animals that have disease resistance due to manipulation of their DNA/genome