Vocabulary
Euthanizing
to kill without pain and remove from suffering
What act was signed into effect in 1966 seeking to regulate who may possess or sell certain animals and to regulate animal living conditions?
Animal Welfare Act
Which group is a branch of the Unites States Department of Agriculture?
IACUC
Who suggested primates were capable of human emotions?
Peter Singer
Which animals are threatened with extinction?
endangered animals
Gangliosidosis
inherited metabolic disease which is a lipid storage disorder
What animal has been used in research pertaining to the eyes?
rabbits
What year was the Animal Welfare Act signed into law?
1966
Who was amongst the first to experiment on animals?
Aristotle
What is the transplantation of living tissue from one species to another?
xenograph
Moratorium
suspension of activity
Which animal shares the most common behavioral and biological characteristics with humans?
non-human primates
Which researcher used mice to produce the first transgenic mammal?
Rudolf Jaenisch
In the late nineteenth century, who experimented on dogs to evaluate their “conditioned” responses, like salivation?
Ivan Pavlov
Which of the following is NOT an example of a production animal?
horses
Influenza
viral infection which causes aches and pains, fever and breathing problems
Which animal is most often used in research and contains more than 90% of the same genes as humans?
Mice
What does IACUC stand for?
Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee
Who invented the process of pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
What was discovered after testing on cats and prevents the clotting of blood?
antocogulants
Ethical
following the accepted moral principles governed by the group
What is the science of chemical substances and their effects on living organisms?
toxicology
Surgical procedures were often first studied on which animal?
dog
Who wrote against animal experimentation with his book Animal Liberation?
Peter Singer
Which act requires minimum standards of treatment and care for animals?
animal welfare act