Research Animal Tech (RAT)

What is Animal Technology?

• specialist profession responsible for the care & welfare of laboratory animals

• association of people who are dedicated to the humane care & treatment of lab animals, quality research that leads to science gains.

• technology used in labs to experiment on the animals

What is AALAS? Pick all the correct answers

• association of people who are dedicated to the humane care & treatments of lab animals; quality research that leads to science gains

• association of people who are against research on animals, stating that it is inhumane and against ethics

• AALAS stands for Association Against Laboratory Animal Sciences

• AALAS stands for American Association of Laboratory Animal Science

Select all the methods of identification

• cage card

• tattoos

• ear tags

• ear notches

• names

A colony is....

• group of rodents living together

• groups of animals in separate cages

• groups of animals living in the same room

Select all the types of bedding...

• wood shavings

• shredded newspaper

• wire flooring

• powder

What is the breeding age

• 1 year old

• when an animal is sexually mature

• when an animal has reached it's adult size

Match the following terms to their definition

• Bedding

• enclosure, container or structure adapted for keeping animals under seminatural conditions for observation or study

• Vivarium

• nutritionally balanced diet for lab animals

• Lab chow

• the material that an animal can rest in

Match the following animals

• Lagomorph

• mammals whose teeth continually grow; 2 upper & 2 lower teeth

• Rodent

• baby rodents born without hair, eyes & ears are closed

• Pinkies

• family of rabbits: 4 upper incisors & 2 lower incisors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Match the following terms...

• transgenic

• an animal that has been transformed with foreign material

• strain

• a permanent change in genetic material

• mutation

• line of individuals of a certain species differentiated from the main group by certain qualities resulting from artificial breeding

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-5

Nocturnal

• awake during day, sleep at night

• awake at night, sleep during day

• no sleep schedule