Midterm Flashcards
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Animal behavior
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How animal reacts to things natural
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Ethology
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The study of animal behavior
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Animal welfare
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The well being and care of animals
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What does fitness mean in animals
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Survival and reproduction
Questions like:
Can it survive, how many offspring survived,
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What contributes to reproduction fitness
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Finding a mate and provide for its kids
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Contributions to survival fitness
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Food,shelter, avoid being killed
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What r proximate question
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How questions
Ex) what causes the behavior ( mechanism)
How does the behavior develop over the life time
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What r ultimate questions
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The why
What is the function of the behavior/ why is it needed
How does the behavior develop through generations
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What is the reason of aggression in bulls
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Testosterone
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What is immunocastatrtion
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A vaccination to block GnRH to prevent the rest of testosterone process
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What is the behavior called before birth
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Nesting
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What is the word for when the mom starts to show interest in other offspring
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Responsiveness
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What is it called after birth behavior
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Discrimination meaning only invests in her offspring
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How many days before does the animal start nesting
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1-3 days
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What is precocial young
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Stand soon after birth, have fur,can see and hear right away
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What is altricial young
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Not fully developed cant see right away depend on the mom longer
An ex is cats
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What are follower species
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The young follows the mom to go find food
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What is hider species
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The young is left a safe space and then bring food
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What is a crèche
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A cow nursery group
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What do hiders do when their older
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Live in the crèche with other claves, knows how to run from predators,and be with the mom
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What is ad libitun sampling
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Collecting data in the animals we can see
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What is focal sampling
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Collecting data on specific animals in a group
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What is continuous sampling
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Watch a given time frame and note everything that happens
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What is instantaneous sampling
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When predefined intervals are given and not looking every mintue
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What is zero one sampling
Collect data within an interval
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What is spermatogenesis
The production of sperm
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What is Oogeneis
The production of eggs
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Where is sperm and testrome produced in the male
The testis
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What does the epididymis do
Covers the extirior part of the testicales and matures the sperm
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Where does sperm travel through to get to the ampulla
The vas deferens
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Where does semen and urine leave from males
The pelvic urethra
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What are the accessory glands in males
Ampulla, seminal vesicle, prostate, bulbourethral gland
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What do accessory glands do
Keep sperm alive, sectraete vitamins, energy, buffers
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What animals have the ampulla that are rapid ejacultaors
Bull, stallion, ram, sheep
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What does the scrotum do
Covers the testicales and cools them down
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What muscle causes sigmoid flexure to straighten out
The ischio cavernous muscle
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Where are the Testis in the male bird
Inside the body by the kidney
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What is male penis for birds
The cloaca
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Where does ursine and feces and sperm come out in birds
The cloaca
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Do birds have accessory glands
No
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What is the pampiniform plexus
A collection of blood vessels and arteries and they are heat exchangers
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How are testis attached to the abdomen
By the spermatic cord
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Where in the testis is sperm made
Seminiferous tubule
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Where does go after the seminiferous tubules in the testis
Rete testis
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Where does sperm go to mature in the testis
Through the epididymis and then to the vas deferens
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Where are Sertoli cells and what do they do
The line the outer edge of the seminiferous tubules and help the sperm matagoma become sperm by making a barrier to the blood stream and and makes sure it makes it to the lumen
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What makes testromone in the testis
The leydig cells
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What is the endocrine system
Regulates body functions with hormones
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What are hormones
Mediators of biological events
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What produces hormones
Endocrine cells that go in the blood stream to differ t target tissues
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What type of hormone is peptide hormones and what do they do
Chemical regulators, they’re protein hormones and they get to the surface of cells and trigger genes getting expressed or not
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What type of hormone is steroid hormones and what do they do
They’re chemical regulators and they bind directly to the dna and affect gene expression
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The hypothalamus and pituitary is a part of what system
The endocrine system which is glands that make and secrete hormones into the bloodstream
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What is the hypothalamus attached to and what happens
It’s Attached to the pituitary and releasing hormones are made to go to the pituitary and get acted on by the releasing hormones producing the hormones needed by the body p.
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What are somatotropin cells
They are in the anterior pituitary and make the growth hormone
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What are corticosterone cells
They’re in the anterior pituitary and they make steroid hormone called Adrenocorticotropic (acth) for the production of cortisol a part of the stress response
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What are thyrotrope cells
They’re in the anterior pituitary. They make thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) it’s involved with the function of thyroid in the animal
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What are the lactotrope cells
They’re in the anterior pituitary. They make a hormone Called prolactin which helps with lactation
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What are gonadotrope cells
They’re in the anterior pituitary. It makes gonatropins which is FSH and LH which acts on the ovaries and testis
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What hormone is made in the posterior pituitray
Oxytocin it’s involved with birthing process and milk let down
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What are gonatropins and what do they do
They’re responsible for the production of sperm and egg
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What does FSH do and what type of hormone is it
It’s a gonatropin called follicle stimulating hormone e. In the male the Sertoli cells get stimulated
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What does LH do and what type of hormone is it
It’s a gonadotropin hormone called lutenizing hormone . It acts on the leydig cells to stimulate testosterone
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What does GNRH do and what type of hormone is it
It’s a gonadoropin called gonadotropin releasing hormone. It’s released by the hypothalamus and produces FSH and LH
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When does gnrh start to produce in males
When it hits puberty
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What controls hormones
By the feedback system
, controls what hormones are being made and which time
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How does negative feedback back work
Stops a product from the pathway to proceed
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How does positive feedback work
Somewhere in the pathway causes more of a product to be made
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What does testerone help with when it gets to the blood stream
Development of the reproductive track and its maintenance . Helps build biggger bones and muscle mass and behavior
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What happens when testosterone gets too high
There’s a negative fed back at the anterior pituitary and the hypothalamus to block production GNRH and FSH and LH
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What is does a diploid cell do
, it supports the replication of spermatogonium
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When does meiosis happen
Only for this sperm and egg it make a diploid cell into a haploid cell to have half of the chromosomes
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When do chromosomes double from the diploid cell
When they’re in miosis 1 in the primary spermatocyte and then divide to go to different cells
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When do the sister chromtaives divide
In miosis 2 ending with haploid spermatids
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Where in the sperm is the dna
In the nucleus which is in the bead of the sperm
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What is the acrosome
It’s surrounds the head of sperm and made from a collection of enzymes to help the sperm penetrate the egg
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What does the mid piece of the sperm hold
The mitochondria which is the sperm energy
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Is spermatogenis a continuous process
Yes once the animal reaches puberty it’s constant and happens in waves
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What is boat taint
And gross smell and taste in pig meat that hasn’t been castrated
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Why does boat taint happen
This other derivative of testosterone called androstenedione but it hangs out in the liver that then meets with the skatole which comes from digestive tract and ends up in the fat tissue
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What is the smallest and largest cell in the body
Sperm is the smallest cell and the egg is the largest cell
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What is the name of the cell membrane for the egg
Zona pellucida
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What does the infundibulum do in females
It’s a skin that surrounds that the ovary and catches the egg when it’s ovulated and funnels it to the oviduct
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Where do eggs get fertilized
In the oviduct
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Where does the egg go after the oviduct and what happens there
Into the uterus where embryo and fetal development happens
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What is the cervix
A barrier that protects the uterus by staying tightly closed
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Where does the cervix open up to and what happens
Opens to the vagina and that’s where the baby comes out to go to the vulva
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What is a bicornuate uterus
When there is uterine horns. This can be seen in pigs and cows
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What is a simplex uterus
When there is no uterine horns like in humans
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What is a duplex uterus
They have 2 cirvices
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Is it true females are born with all the eggs they’re going to ever have
True
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What does the infundumblin do in birds
It catches the egg and also fertilizes
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Where does the egg in birds after getting fetalized
To the magnum where albumin( the white part of the egg) is added to the egg
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Where does a fertilized egg in a bird go after the magnum
To the isthmus where the shell membrane gets added
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Where does the egg in birds go after the isthmus
To the egg gland where the egg gets its pigment
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Where does the egg last,y go before leaving through the cloaca in birds
The vagina
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What is the name of site of egg production
Oogenesis
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What structure holds the egg in females and where estrogen and progesterone are made
The follicles
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What is name of the cells that are supposed to become eggs
Oogonium
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What is it called when the oogonium goes into meiosis 1
It’s in the primary oocyte and the cells divides
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What is the polar body cell and what happens to the other daughter cell in females
The polar body leads to a dead end and the other cell ends up with bulk of cytoplasm
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What is miosis 2 in female egg production
Secondary oocyte and it breaks that daughter cells again making the second polar body cell and the ovum
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When does oogensis for females start
Before birth(so starts in the grandmother) all that happens is they start mitosis and enter meiosis 1
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What happens after ovulation in meiosis 2
The process freezes again and meiosis only completes if the egg gets fertilized
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Where does the egg live
In the cortex the outer region of the ovary
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What is the middle of ovary called
Medulla that’s where all the blood and veins are
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What is the primordial follicle
A layer of not organized cells
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What is primary follicles
The cells surrounding the egg become organized
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What is secondary follicles
More layers of cells get addded to the follicle surrounding the egg
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What are tertiary follicles
A antrum or cavity forms which has fluids to nourish the egg and communicate with the follicle
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What is the Antral follicale ir grafian follicle
It ruptured and releases a second egg
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What is the corpus luteum
If the animal isn’t pregnant the CL gets broken down making the corpus Albican
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What is the source of estrogen
The follicle
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What is the source of progesterone
The corpus lithium
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What do cumulus cell do
Communicate with the follicle and egg during fertilization and have chemical attractants in it for the sperm
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How is androgens made in females
LH acts on theca cells and then becomes gransulosa cells
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How is estrogen made in females
Fsh acts on granulosa cells
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What does the theca cells do with the granusola cell after ovulation
Transform into the corpus lithium and make luteal cells overall making progesterone
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What happens when estrogen levels get too high in females
Negative feedback happens and it goes to the hypothamulus and the anterior pituitary
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What happens right before ovulation with positive feedback
There’s so much estrogen that positive feedback happens saying to make more GNRH, fsh and LH .Over all making more estrogen and being a LH surge ovulating the egg
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What does negative feedback of progesterone do
It goes to the hypothalamus and the anterior pituitary to lower Fsh and prevent more follicles from developing
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If the female isn’t pregnant what happens
The cl is luteolysis which is when it break downs and then progesterone levels drop and negative feedback doesn’t happen
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What does it mean to be polyestrous
To ovulate many times a year for example cows and pigs
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What does it mean to be seasonally poly estrous
To only Breed during certain times of year for example goat and sheep in the fall
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What is it to be monesterous
To ovulate once a year
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What is to be a reflex ovulator
To ovulate when they’re Breeding
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What is it to be anestrous
To not be in estrous like when the female is pregnant there’s no more eggs
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What happens first day of the estrous cycle
Ovulation happens There will be a narrow follicle that just ovulated and an old corpus luteum
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What happens 2-4 days of the estrous cycle
Make a new corpus lithium and the old one is becoming a corpus albican
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What happens 5-15 days of the estrous cycle
The corpus luteum is mature making progesterone
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What happens 16-20 days of the estrous cycle
If the animal is pregnant the embryo will block the release of prostaglandin but if not pregnant I’ll release prostaglandin. also the the CL is finally removed
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What happens 21 days of the estrous cycle
The follicle becomes mature and restarts
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What is the luteal phase in females
When Cl is present in the estrous cycle
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What is the luteolysis phase in females
Name for Cl getting broken down
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What is the follicular phase in the female
When follicles start growing right before ovulation
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What’s the name of the phase after ovulation
Metestrus when cl is forming
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What is the stage name of teh mature cl
Diestrus
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What’s the stage name when Cl is regressed
Proestrus
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What is the stage name of when the animal is in standing heat
Estrus
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What is he definition of fertilization
The physical union of male and female gametes of sperm and ova in an animal
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What is the embryonic stage
When the embryo gets fertilized up to when the organs are formed
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What is the fetal stage
Once all the organs exist up to the fetus birth, 2/3 growth happens in that stage
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What is get name of a egg that has been fertilized
A zygote
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What is pronuclei
DNA from the sperm and egg
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How many Cells are there when the zygote divides before blastocyst
16 that gave blastomere in the cells
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What is a morula
When individual blastomeres can’t be identified anymore during the embryo development
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What is a blastocyst
The making of two types of cells
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What is a blastocoel in the embryo
The first opening in the embryo for later development
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What are Trophoblast cell
They form the fetal side of the placenta
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What is Inner cell mass
The part that makes the individual placenta
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What is a hatched blastocyst
The zona pellucida cracks allowing for the embryo to keep growing
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What is needed for establishment of pregnancy
Prevention of the prostaglandin from regressing the cl
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What is needed to keep up with the matinee of the pregnancy
Progesterone to prevent uterine contractions
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What is made to block prostaglandin in humans and horses
The early embryo makes chorionic gonadotropin which is similar to Lh. By making the cl to keep making progesterone
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What does the early embryo secrete in ruminant species to keep a pregnancy
With interferon tau It does it by preventing prostaglandin being made
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What does the early embryo secrete in ruminant species to keep a pregnancy
With estrogen blocking prostaglandin being able to travel to the ovary
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What does the early embryo secrete in species like dogs to keep a pregnancy
By being monestrus so there always in the luteal phase meaning progesterone will always be high
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What is the name of iner most of the fetal membrane
The amnion which is a fluid bubble that surrounds and cushions the fetus
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What is the yolk sac in the fetal membrane
A source of blood cells and primordial germ cells
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What is the chorion and Allston is in the fetal membrane
The chorion is the outer layer that’s going to be next to get uterine wall
, the allantonis is the inner layer where waste and gas exchange happens
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What animal has the diffuse placenta
Horse and pig meaning that fetal membrane attaches all across uterus
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What animal has the cotyledonary placenta
Ruminants have attachment points called carnelces which is attachment points for the embryo membrane
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What animal has a discoid type of placenta
Primates and rodents meaning there’d one huge attachment between membranes and uterus
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What animals have a zonary placenta
Cats and dogs where the contact point is circular structure that goes all around
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What is the name of the connection point of a off spring and dam
Placentome
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How is progesterone lowered to then have
Partuation happen
The fetus releases cortisol
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What softens the cervix for partit
Relaxin
