History
•Which small mammal is thought to be the first domesticated animal?
What is a domesticated dog.
Which kingdom includes molds and yeasts?
What is fungi
Cats are the most common household pet.
What is false.
Which of these businesses would be classified as an exhibitor of animals?
What is a carnival.
____________________ is the science concerned with the naming and classification of organisms.
What is taxonomy.
•Name two reasons humans domesticated small animals.
What is •Food, companionship, work, protection
The class Aves includes:
What is birds.
Mammals are more or less covered with hair.
What is true.
Not counting birds, rats, and mice, which of these animals are MOST often used in laboratory experiments?
What is rabbits.
____________________ are semi-feral dogs that live in close approximation to towns where they survive by scavenging on garbage.
What is pariqah dogs.
•About how many years ago were dogs domesticated?
What is 15,000
Living things use isotopes of which element preferentially?
What is Carbon.
Current archeological evidence indicates that domestication of the dog occurred about 6,000 years ago.
What is false.
Arthropods and worms are examples of:
What are invertebrates.
What are the two main theories about how canine domestication occurred?
What is.....Pariah dogs are semi-feral dogs who live in close approximation to towns where they survive by scavenging on garbage. This theory holds that individual pariah-type dogs who allowed humans to get fairly close to them before they fled would have obtained more food and therefore reproduced more successfully than those dogs who ran more readily from people.
Which of these are believed to be the first animals domesticated?
What is a domesticated dog.
The bony fish appeared in the Ordovician period and became abundant during the _____ period.
What is Devonian.
Socrates is credited with the first attempts at classifying organisms based on their structural similarities.
What is false.
The oldest direct traces of life on earth date back 30 to 40 million years.
What is false. 3.4-3.5 billion
Explain veterinary expenditures and the purpose of veterinary clinics to small animal. Be sure to include financial amounts in answer.
What is the growth of the veterinary industry. This industry grows every year. Dogs are a 16 billion dollar or more industry.
Who is credited with developing our modern method of animal classification?
Carlous Linneaus
It is estimated that there are about ______ independent pet stores in the United States.
-What is 7500-8500.
Each species has a name composed of two words.
What is true.
When writing a species name, the genus name is capitalized.
What is true.
_________ have fingerprints almost identical to human.
What is a Koala.