Lab Final Flashcards
Reproductive technologies
Semen sexing
IVP of embryos
Transgenic animal production
Gene mapping
Marker assisted selection
Transgenic animal production examples
Micro injection
Blastocyst injection
Nuclear transfer
Propagate superior livestock animals
Cloning
Remove or add a gene to improve a breed of livestock
Transgenics
Select animals for specific traits very early in life
Coat color in cattle
Production of proteins which are essential to human life
Milk
Blood
Urine
Alter specific genes in specific locations to attain a desirable result
Transgenics
What chromosome gives off more light emission because it has more dye and more DNA
X chromosome
What chromosome has an extra short arm
X chromosome
What determines sex
Sperm
What excites vital dye in semen sexing
Laser
Why does the X chromosome have more dna
Extra short arm
Sperm run through system ______
Individually
Sperm is given a charge based on
Light intensity
Pass magnetic field in semen sexing
Sorting
Dead or damaged sperm not selected
Purifying samples
System that has a 95% or better success sorting
Flow cytometric analysis of sperm
Ovaries isolate
Oocytes
Step 1 of in vitro fertilization
Synchronization of recipients with donor
Step 2 of in vitro fertilization
Superovulation of donor
Multiple treatments of porcine FSH promotes more
Follicle development
8 CLs mean the donor is
Super ovulated
Step 3 or in vitro fertilization
Inseminate donor with semen from genetically superior bull
Work AI rod through the ______ by ______ ________
Cervix
Rectal palpation
Once rod is beyond the cervix in the uterine body then you
Deposit semen
Step 4 of in vitro fertilization
Recovery and identification of viable embryos
Collect/flush the embryos in the
Uterine horn
Step 5 of in vitro fertilization
Transfer of viable embryos into synchronized recipients
Cattle: Want the recipient to be a day _____, a day ______, or
Ahead
Behind
Exact synchrony with donor
Pig: want recipients to have _____ ______ or be a little _______
Exact synchrony
Behind
Cow transfer of viable embryos into synchronized recipients days
5, 6, or 7
Pig transfer of viable embryos into synchronized recipients days
5 or 6
Long ultrasound probe inserted into reproductive tract through vulva into vagina
Transvaginal aspiration
Always better to transfer ______ than to freeze
Immediately
Provides suction and holds embryo in place
Holding pipette
Snap on end-injection needle —> into pro nucleus
Glass pipette
Embryos are not designed to be centrifuged at ____ speeds
High
Efficiency of trans gene integration following micro injection
10% success rate mouse embryos
Livestock even less efficient
Blastocyst injection of embryonic stem cells occurs at a much ____ stage in development
Later
What houses the developing fetus during gestation
Placenta
Cells can either be ______ ____ ____ or _______
Inner cell mass
Trophoblast
Fluid-filled area
Blastocoel
Forms embryo
Inner cell mass
Forms placenta
Trophoblast
Day 6-7 embryo development
Compact morula
Day 7-8 embryo development
Early blastocyst
Day 7-9 embryo development
Blastocyst
Day 8-10 embryo development
Expanded blastocyst
Day 9-11 embryo development
Hatching blastocyst
Trophoblast cells die off means a
Pure population of inner cell mass cells (embryonic stem cells)
Embryonic stem cells can utilize
Gene targeting
Can add a gene, replace a gene, or remove a gene in a very specific location
Gene targeting
Gene targeting needs _____ of embryonic stem cells
Millions
Gene is swapped with genetic alteration
Homologous recombination
Select cells to isolate only those that were able to take out that genetic alteration
Selection of transformed embryonic stem cells
Cells taken up foreign DNA acquire
Antibody resistance
Select colonies of cells with identical genetic alterations
Isolation of transformed embryonic stem cells
Millions/billions of cells that can freeze down to liquid nitrogen
Expand transformed embryonic stem cells
Comprised of 2 completely different breeds
Not crossbred
Chimera
Sheep/goat chimera is a
Geep
Genetic alteration disadvantage
2 generations needed to get genetically engineered animal
Generic alteration advantage
Can target genetic alterations before the animal is made
Clone donor cells examples
Ear punch
Liver
Embryonic stem cells
1st cloned sheep using somatic cells
Dolly
What somatic cells were used to clone dolly
Mammary gland cells
Best candidate for transferring organs into humans
Pigs
1st cloned cat
Carbon copy
Cloning advantage
Can make a genetically engineered animal in one generation
Cloning disadvantage
Not super efficient
Expensive
UNL genetically engineered pigs contained what protein
Green fluorescent
Approaching cow for rectal palpation procedure
- Grasp tail firmly lift to one side
- Put on lubricated glove or sleeve
- Insert closed hand into rectum halfway to elbow
Heat checking: gilts exposed to boar exposure for __ to ____ minutes
15 to 20 minutes
The gilt being mounted by other gilts is
In heat
In heat gilt characteristics
Frozen, immobile, stands solid
Ears pinned back
Allows to sit on back
Red, swollen Vulva
How do you mark gilts in heat
Heat chemical symbol on back
Heat checking scoring system: dashed line
Didn’t show any signs of heat
Heat checking scoring system: 2++
Vulva is super swollen
Heat checking scoring system
-, 2-, 2, 2+, 2++
Triangle is what symbol
Chemical heat symbol
Gilts average ____ days of estrus cycles
21
Gilt AI tip is in what shape
Shape of boar penis
How do you insert an AI rod into a gilt
Upward motion, turn counter-clockwise
Estrous synchronization advantages
Decrease labor and calving period
Reduce calving season
More uniform weaning weights
Agonists for steroid hormone progesterone
Progestogens
Mimics luteal phase by having a light level of
Progesterone
Ways to administer progesterone
Injection
Feed
Implant
CIDR
CIDR application process
- Insert CIDR loading device into the vagina
- X-ray of CIDR loading device in vagina
- Release CIDR apparatus
- Leave a little bit of a tag to remove CIDR when necessary
Protocol of eazi-breed CIDR (beef cow)
Day 1: insert CIDR with CIDIROL capsule
Day 6: inject PG
Day 7: remove CIDR
Day 8: inject 2mL CIDIROL
Day 9-11: detect estrus