ALAT Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers

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ALAT Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers 1.What is not a physical method of euthanasia✔✔ Carbon Dioxide 2.Mice exhibit postpartum estrus. They will normally come into estrus within hours after giving birth✔✔ 24 3.A male ferret is called a and a female is called a ✔✔ Hob; jill 4.Scientific technology has developed the technique for introducing genetic material from one animal into the fertilized egg of a different animal. When the offspring are born they are called✔✔ Transgenics 5.Eating feces is termed ✔✔ Coprophagy 6.When an is mostly active at night they are said to be ✔✔ Nocturnal 7.The common laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus, was developed from the wild brown rat✔✔ Norway 8.T he reddish material found in the tears and saliva of rats is called .- 1 / 3

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9.The hooded rat is also known as a 10.The golden hamster is also known as the rat✔✔ Long-Evans hamster✔✔ Syrian 11.The most unusual feature of the hamster, which makes it a popular model for research is their ✔✔ Cheek pouch 12.Hamsters urine is normally in color✔✔ Whitish 13.If an animal is born blind and helpless, it is considered to be ✔✔ - altricial 14.Th e most common outbred guinea pig used in research is the

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Dunkin-Hartley 15.The normal gestation period for the cat is months(s)✔✔ Two 2 / 3

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16.A female guinea pig is called a ✔✔ Sow 17.Guinea pigs cannot syuthesize vitamin ✔✔ C 18.The unique reproductive trait among gerbils is that they ✔✔ Mate for life 19.An unusual behavior noticed in approximately 20% of gerbils is sponta- neous ✔✔ Seizures 20.Gerbils have relatively little odor compared to other rodents because ✔✔ they produce very small amounts of urine 21.Paturation in rabbits is called ✔✔ kindling

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