Ethical standards for the use of animal subjects require researchers to
a. demonstrate the necessity of using animals in their project.
b. use only those techniques that do no permanent harm to their animals.
c. not use animals under any circumstances.
d. discuss their proposal with on-campus peers, but not necessarily with members of the community.
Question 2
A researcher wants to study fetal alcohol syndrome, a set of deficits in the offspring caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy, by randomly assigning pregnant mice to alcohol and no alcohol groups. Which of the following is the best reason for using mice instead of people for this study?
a. Mice consume larger amounts of alcohol relative to their body weight than humans do.
b. You don't need to have the approval of an ethics committee in order to study mice.
c. Although ethical standards for animal research still apply, some research considered completely unethical for humans can be conducted with animals.
d. Mice are so much like people there's no reason to study people.
Traditional animal phylogeny based on body plans.
Representative nervous systems throughout the animal kingdom.
Animal Cell Key
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR Standards
Different types of medication require different routes of administration.
The major events in meiosis in an animal cell with metaphase