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Acronyms
100
The period from conception to parturition.
What is gestation?
100
The most important nutrient.
What is water?
100
Three environmental changes that can cause an animal to be stressed.
What is temperature, humidity, noise, overcrowding, lighting, ventilation, or contaminants.
100
The use of cell or tissue culture or mathematical models instead of animals.
What is replacement?
100
AAALAC, International.
What is Association for Assesment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care?
200
A polygamous mating system in which one male is housed with two or more females.
What is harem mating?
200
Long chains the make up proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
A type of caging used to collect urine and feces.
What is a metabolism cage?
200
The use of procedures to minimize stress or pain to animals.
What is refinement?
200
IACUC
What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
300
The study of abnormal fetal development.
What is teratology?
300
The four fat soluble vitamins.
What are A, D, E, & K?
300
A hand-held instrument used to measure air-flow.
What is an anemometer?
300
The use of the minimum number of animals that will serve a useful purpose, yield statistically sound data and produce scientific benefit.
What is reduction?
300
MHV.
What is Mouse Hepatitis Virus?
400
Transmission of a disease from parent to offspring.
What is vertical transmission?
400
The nutrient that must be supplied in food to humans, nonhuman primates, and guinea pigs.
What is Vitamin C?
400
Getting newly arrived animals used to a different environment.
What is acclimate?
400
The branch of government responsible for the Animal Welfare Act.
What is the USDA?
400
DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
500
The number of young weaned divided by the number of weeks lapsed since mating.
What is the breeding index?
500
The sum of intracellular chemical reactions.
What is metabolism?
500
The study of animal behavior.
What is ethology?
500
The originators of the 3Rs.
Who are Russell and Burch?
500
RO water.
What is reverse osmosis?