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Biosecurity
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Facililities
Animal Facts
Science Fun!
100
This many biosafety levels (BSL) are generally recognized
What is 4?
100
These are four fat soluble vitamins
What are A, D, E, K?
100
These are the three types of automatic cage washers
What are cabinet, rack and tunnel?
100
This is the most unusual anatomical feature of the hamster
What are cheek pouches?
100
There are about this many drops in a milliliter
What is 20?
200
These healthy animals are used to detect disease
What are sentinels?
200
These are four fat soluble vitamins
What are A, D, E, K?
200
This is the recommended number of air changes per hour
What is 10-15?
200
Nostrils that open to the side are indicative of this type of NHP
What are New World?
200
This describes a drug that relieves pain
What is an analgesic?
300
Inanimate objects that mechanically transmit disease agents
What are fomites?
300
This is a common anesthetic for fish and amphibians
What is tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222)
300
This type of caging is designed to collect urine and feces
What are metabolism cages?
300
This is the term for female guinea pig
What is a sow?
300
These are the three basic components of animal cells
What are cell membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasm?
400
This type of facility requires a wet shower and complete change into clean clothes/garb
What is a barrier?
400
This is the most common sign of a herpes B infection in macaques
What are oral ulcers?
400
Some facilities use chlorine in automatic watering systems for this reason
What is to inhibit bacterial growth?
400
There are this many compartments in the ruminant stomach
What is four?
400
MRI is an abbreviation for this
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
500
Quarantine and isolation rooms should operate at this type of pressure
What is negative?
500
These are the basic functional units of the kidney
What are nephrons?
500
HEPA filters trap particles down to this size (in microns)
What is 0.3 microns?
500
Athymic nude mice lack these types of cells
What are T cells?
500
This term is used to describe the average of a sum of numbers
What is the mean?