Animals, domestic
animals which have become adapted through breeding in captivity to a life intimately associated with man. They include animals domesticated by man to live and breed in a tame condition on farms or ranches (e.g.
Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on...
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Transgenic Animals
A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. The foreign gene is constructed using recombinant DNA methodology.
Animals are a major group of multicellular organisms, of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.
Animals
Increased resistance, productivity, hardiness, and feed efficiency
Better yields of meat, eggs, and milk
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Speciation through hybridization and/or polyploidy has long been considered much less important in animals than in plants [[[refs.]]]. A number of reviews suggest that this view may be mistaken.
Animals are multicellular heterotrophs whose cells lack cell walls. At some point during their lives, all animals are capable of movement, although not all animals have muscles they use for this.
Animals are characteristically multicellular heterotrophs whose cells lack cell walls. At some point during their lives, animals are capable of movement.
Animals are a large and incredibly diverse group of organisms. Making up about three-quarters of the species on Earth, they run the gamut from corals and jellyfish to ants, whales, elephants, and, of course, humans.
Animals cannot make their own food. They must rely on other living things, such as plants, fungi, and other animals to sustain them. Without other food sources, animals could not survive.
Animals in utero can be affected by hormones produced by nearby siblings of the opposite sex. The placement of an animal, such as a mouse in a litter, may have a long-term effect on physiology or behavior.
animals having a temporary or permanent dorsal skeletal notochord
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Animals with three segmented body regions, a jointed exoskeleton, blood in body cavities, and a complex nervous system. Includes spiders and insects.
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Animals that lack a coelom (body cavity).
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Animals store extra carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver and muscles. Between meals, the liver breaks down glycogen to glucose in order to keep the concentration of glucoses in the blood stable.
animals Members of the kingdom Animalia, which consists of heterotrophic, eukaryotic, and multicellular organisms.
anisogametes Outwardly dissimilar male and female gametes. Anisogamy is the condition of having dissimilar male and female gametes.
In animals, a physiological state that conserves energy by slowing down the heart and respiratory systems.
totipotency
The ability of embryonic cells to retain the potential to form all parts of the animal.
All animals, other than the insects, have a very efficient closed circulatory system. There is a heart which pumps blood to the arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and venules and veins which collect the blood and bring it back to the heart.
Meiofauna. Animals whose shortest dimension is less than 0.5 mm but greater than or equal to 0.1 mm ...
In vertebrate animals the development of a new being can only take place when a female germ cell or ovum has been fertilized by a male germ cell or spermatozoön.
Congenic: Animals which have been bred to be genetically identical except for a single gene locus.
Group of animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and phenotypically similar in most traits. Cf. breeding line.
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protozoa - tiny animals; most feed on microorganisms
yeast - eukaryotic organisms larger than most bacteria, commonly divides by budding ...
(1) All cats are animals (universal affirmative)
(2) No cats are plants (universal negative)
(3) Some animals are cats (particular affirmative)
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In animals it is the rounded rib head that articulates with the centrum of the vertebra. In plants it is a head of flowers.
capsid
the protein shell that encloses the viral genome; rod-shaped, polyhedral, or more completely shaped.
crepuscular - animals that are active in the twilight; i.e., at pre-dawn and at dusk
crochets - a row of hook-like structures found on the walking surface of prolegs of larval lepidopterans that aid in gripping the substrate ...
Phylon
A group of animals or plants constructed on a similar general plan, a primary division in classification.
mesoderm -- In animals with three tissue layers (i.e. all except sponges and cnidarians), the middle layer of tissue, between the ectoderm and the endoderm.
Many naturally occurring cancers of vertebrate animals are caused by retroviruses. Reverse genetics.
Allen's Rule: The warmer the climate the longer the appendages (ears, legs, wings) of warm blooded animals in comparison with closely related taxa from colder climes.
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the central information storage system of most animals and plants, and even some viruses.
Haploid A single set of chromosomes (half the full set of genetic material), present in the egg and sperm cells of animals and in the egg and pollen cells of plants. Human beings have 23 chromosomes in their reproductive cells. Compare diploid.
Many eukaryotes, including stressed plants, insects, deep-sea animals and kidney tubule cells, adapt to environmental variation by making or accumulating diverse inositol derivatives as ‘compatible' solutes.
Transmission from chimps to humans probably occurred while animals were butchered for food in sub-Saharan Africa, with animal blood contaminating wounds of humans.
Zoology is the discipline which involves the study of animals, which includes the physiology of animals is studied under various fields including anatomy and embryology.
Commonly found in wild animals such as the beaver, this graceful, flagellated organism may infect unwary hikers. But giardiasis can also be contracted via contaminated foods.
The glucose made by plants is used by plants and animals as a source of energy. To release the energy contained in the bonds of glucose, the glucose must be converted to ATP.
Ethology studies animal behavior (particularly that of social animals such as primates and canids), and is sometimes considered a branch of zoology.
deuterostomes - broad classification of triploblastic animals including echinoderms and chordates that tend to share certain embryological traits; among these the formation of the "mouth second" (hence the name) during gastrulation, ...
ptb is a gastrointestinal pathogen, it can cause fatal septicemia in stressed animals, and can be transmitted to fleas.
a contagious infection of animals and birds by protozoa of the genera Eimena and Isospora, usually affecting the intestinal epithelium and causing enteritis ...
Predator: An animal that attacks and feeds on other animals, normally killing several individuals during its life cycle.
Pronotum: The upper, often shield-like, hardened body-wall plate, located just behind the head of an insect.
Recombination occurs naturally in plants and animals during the production of sex cells (sperm, eggs, pollen) and their subsequent joining in fertilization. In microbes, genetic material is recombined naturally during conjugation.
gossypol. A substance poisonous to many animals, produced by numerous small glands in most cotton varieties.
graft union. Place where the rootstock joins the scion or top part of a grafted tree or vine.
Traditional breeding: Modification of plants and animals through selective breeding. Practices used in traditional plant breeding may include aspects of biotechnology such as tissue culture and mutation breeding.
[Gr. zoon - animal; planktos - wandering]. Minute aquatic animals that drift freely in the plankton, feeding mainly on phytoplankton (plant-like organisms) and having no locomotory structures.
Hermaphroditism having organs of both sexes in one body (this term is used primarily with animals - "monoecious" is used with plants) ...
Dissections provide a way for learning about the internal and external anatomical structures of animals. For many people however, dissections can be very disturbing.
antibodies - a molecule produced by animals in response to antigen which has the particular property of combining specifically with the antigen which induced its formation ...
agency responsible for regulation of biotechnology products in plants and animals. The major laws under which the agency has regulatory powers include the Federal Plant Pest Act (PPA), the Federal Seed Act, and the Plant Variety Act (PVA).
The development of transgenic animals to produce human proteins for medical use.
Molecular genetics
The study of macromolecules important in biological inheritance.
gametes - reproductive cells; sperm and egg cells in animals.
gene - section of a chromosome which codes for a protein or RNA product.
Organ A group of tissues that perform a particular job. Animals have more than a dozen organs, including the heart, brain, eye, liver, and lung.
The biological variety in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals.
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GMO stands for genetically modified organism. This refers to bacteria or other microorganisms, or multicellular organisms such as plants and animals, whose genetic makeup has been altered by scientists.
For example, a laser beam can be used to focus on and kill one cell in C. elegans. In other experimental animals, a controllable promoter may be used to selectively express a toxin gene in a small number of cells.
Ammoniotelic Characteristic of organisms in which excess ammonia is directly secreted; many aquatic animals are ammoniotelic.
The study on the origin of diseases and plagues is also answerable by means of Biology, for example the etiology of cancer, infections, functional problems, the damage to fruits, the pathologies of farm animals, plants, trees, etc.
 See also: Animal, Organ, Human, Plant, Trans
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