Who Am I?
The main reason animals are used in biomedical research is:
What is they are similar to humans in their reactions and responses because they have similar biological structures?
The main goal for animal research guidelines:
What are to minimize pain and distress of animals?
This organization conducts unannounced inspections of animal research facilities.
Who is USDA?
This medical development used to treat children battling leukemia was made possible by animal research.
What is chemotherapy?
The FDA requires these products to be tested on lab animals before they are tested on humans.
What are prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs?
The percentage of rodents that are used in biomedical research is
What is 90%-95%?
The main difference between animal rights and animal welfare is that people who support animal rights believe:
What is the humans should continue using animals in research?
This animal group is used least often in laboratory research.
What is cats and dogs?
The animals rights group that stages controversial public demonstrations by dressing in attention-getting suits is:
Who is PETA?
Human intolerance and discrimination of animals is known as:
What is speciesism?
The indicator that would make research using animals valid is the animals :
used are all over 2 years old; are wild; are purchased from the US; are not placed in stressful environment.
What is not placed in a stressful environment?
Every effort is made to ensure the animals are pain free during the research process unless:
pain medicine is not available; the researcher has strong beliefs against the use of pain meds; the pain medicine will interfere with the results; the researcher believes the animals will feel no pain.
What is the pain medicine will interfere with the results?
Animals that were not included in the original Animal Welfare Act include:
(toads, frogs, tadpoles), (rats, mice, and birds), (rabbits, cows, and pigs), (dogs, cats, and goats).
What are rats, mice, and birds?
The agency that enforces the Animal Welfare Act is:
What is USDA?
animal rights groups; public and private research facilities; worker's injury reports; zoos and parks.
What are public and private research facilities?
The FBI has described the tactics of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) as:
What is domestic terrorism?
The AWA requires all research facilities to establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). This committee is responsible for:
What is reviewing and approving procedures involving animals?
The law or act that requires the humane and responsible treatment of animals that are used in biomedical research is the:
What is Animal Welfare Act?
Scientists will have the opportunity to analyze their research over longer periods of time if animals have a longer:
What is life span?
The American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) is an organization that:
What is requires accreditation of animal research facilities?
When a researcher anticipates that an animal may experience pain during a procedure, the researcher:
What is makes every effort to ensure the animal does not feel discomfort?
This disease was eradicated in the US due to animal research, and children are no longer required to have its vaccine to enter public school.
What is smallpox?
An example of reduction in animal research is:
conducting an MRI on the brain instead of performing surgery; substituting 1 rabbit for 100 mice; giving animals 2 hrs of socialization instead of 4 hrs; decreasing the number of times the animals are fed each day.
What is substituting 1 rabbit for 100 mice?
Animal research is only valid if the animals are:
What is not stressed out and are healthy?
This research method is the best known surrogate for humans in the lab.
computer models; mathematical models; nonhuman animal models; in vitro.
What is nonhuman animal models?
The agency that approves the use of animals in research:
AAALAC; AALAS; PETA; IACUC.
What is IACUC?
using noninvasive techniques; substituting in vitro tests; improving animal housing facilities; reducing pain and suffering.
What is substituting in vitro tests?
The Animal Welfare Act was passed in 1966 specifically to govern:
What is the use of animals in research, testing, and teaching?
The 3 R's in research experiments that use animals as models:
What are replace, reduce, and refine the use of animals?
The Animal Welfare Act states that the use of animals must be reviewed and approved by
What is the IACUC?