ARTs in Animals Flashcards
(9 cards)
What are ways animals are going extinct?
Pollution, habitat loss, hunting, climate change etc.
What is conservative breeding?
Breeding aiming to restore or supplement wild populations
Why is conservation breeding difficult?
Lack of breeding successes, small population/inbreeding, adaptations to captivity, limited space and resources, live animal transport and skewed sex ratios/surplus animals
What is artificial insemination?
Common in livestock where sperm is placed in women’s uterus
What is embryo transfer?
Embryo transferred into another female of same or similar species for pregnancy
What is somatic cell nuclear transfer?
Lots of failure but keeps all genes of the cell as all DNA is transferred to a enucleated oocytes for fertilisation
What is sperm sexing?
Telling the sex of the sperm before fertilisation which is useful if you have a species with less of one gender than the other.
What is genome resource banking?
Preservation of tissue DNA.
What are the limitations of ART in wild animals?
Lack of funding,
Species-specific requirements
Small population size
Ethical arguments
