Animals in Research ICEV Assessments I-IV
Which year was the Animal Welfare Act signed into law?
1966
Which of the following administers licenses and registration to research facilities?
APHIS
Who regulates the Animal Welfare Act?
APHIS
Which act requires minimum standards of treatment and care for animals?
Animal Welfare Act
Which of the following was discovered after testing on cats and prevents the clotting of blood?
Anticoagulants
Who was amongst the first to experiment on animals?
Aristotle
Who was the first to divide organisms into two groups- plants and animals?
Aristotle
Which of the following animals can contract a condition similar to human AIDS?
Cat
Who created the Theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin
Which researcher was known as the prince of vivisection?
Claude Bernard
Surgical procedures were often first studied on which animal?
Dog
Which human disease is related to the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which effects non-human primates?
HIV
Which group is a branch of the Unites States Department of Agriculture?
IACUC
What does IACUC stand for?
Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee
In the late nineteenth century, who experimented on dogs to evaluate their "conditioned" responses, like salivation?
Ivan Pavlov
Who invented the process of pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
Which animal is most often used in research and contains more than 90 percent of the same genes as humans?
Mice
Which animal shares the most common behavioral and biological characteristics with humans?
Non-human primates
Which of the following provides federal funding for animal research facilities?
PHS
Who suggested primates were capable of human emotions?
Peter Singer
Who wrote against animal experimentation with his book Animal Liberation?
Peter Singer
Which animal has been used in research pertaining to the eyes?
Rabbits
Which researcher used mice to produce the first transgenic mammal?
Rudolf Jaenisch
Which of the following is the science of chemical substances and their effects on living organisms?
Toxicology
Which of the following is the transplantation of living tissue from one species to another?
Xenograft