mock exam revision Flashcards
1
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what are 5 reasons for breeding?
A
- pet trade
- conservation breeding
- sports animals
- working animals
- food production
2
Q
what are 4 reproductive techniques?
A
- artificial insemination (AF)
- In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)
- Embryo Transfer (ET)
- sperm sexing
3
Q
What is artificial insemination?
A
sperm is collected from male with desirable traits and is used to answer manually inseminate the female
4
Q
what is sperm sexing?
A
sperm cells carry male and female genes that can be separated to influence proportion of males to females
5
Q
what is IVF?
A
An embryo is treated in the lab from sperm and eggs from the parents with desirable traits embryo is then implanted into recipient or can be frozen
6
Q
what is embryo transfer?
A
collection of or flushing of embryos of donor animals with subsequent transfer of embryos into recipient surrogate mothers or frozen
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