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Question 1

Why is animal health important?

Answer 1

Stress decreases production, consumers want ethically raised products, many livestock pathogens are zoonotic

Question 2

Why is it undesirable that producers have became reliant on antimicrobials?

Answer 2

Development of Antimicrobial Resistance

Question 3

For the past 30-40 years animal breeders have focused on what kind of traits?

Answer 3

Production Traits

Question 4

Animals bred specifically for traits related to high performance such as increased productivity or growth rates there tends to be a negative impact on?

Answer 4

Health & Fertility

Question 5

Climate changes is expected to adversely affect the health of livestock, how can we produce animals that are more resilient to support animal health?

Answer 5

Management practices, genetic selection strategies, immunological approaches

Question 6

The fields that deal with the nervous system and the immune system, and how animals respond to stressors and pathogens?

Answer 6

Neurobiology and Immunology

Question 7

What are measurable indicators of biological processes or states called?

Answer 7

Biomarkers

Question 8

How can biomarkers be used?

Answer 8

Assess physiological condition of animal, detect disease, monitor response to treatments

Question 9

Domesticated animals are routinely subjected to different types of _?

Answer 9

Stressors

Question 10

Stressors are?

Answer 10

Something that disrupts homeostasis in an organism

Question 11

Stressors elicit what?

Answer 11

Stress response

Question 12

A stress response is?

Answer 12

An evolutionary conserved response that involves activation of multiple physiological systems during a perceived danger

Question 13

The physiological systems activated during stress response include:

Answer 13

Cardiovascular, Metabolic, Musculoskeletal, Neuroendocrine, and Immune

Question 14

Stress Response manifests as?

Answer 14

Fight, Flight, or Freeze

Question 15

Which animal is an example of the freeze response?

Answer 15

Fainting Goat

Question 16

Why do Fainting Goats freeze?

Answer 16

Congenital Myotonia

Question 17

What is the causative gene for this disorder?

Answer 17

CLCN1

Question 18

What does the CLCN1 gene encode?

Answer 18

Chloride Channel Protein

Question 19

What kind of mutation encodes this gene?

Answer 19

Missense

Question 20

There is dysfunction in the Chloride Channel Protein because alanine is substituted with what amino acid?

Answer 20

Proline

Question 21

Chloride channels play a role in regulating electrical activity of muscle cells, when they are malfunctioning due to the mutation, what happens?

Answer 21

Unable to relax properly