Define Estrus

Define Anestrus

Define Estrous Cycle

List the categories that the Estrous Cycle is defined?

Describe Polyestrous Cycle

Give an example of an animal that has a Polyestrous Cycle.

Describe Seasonally Polyestrous Cycle

Give an example of animals that exhibit Seasonally Polyestrous Cycles.

Define Non-Receptive

What type of estrus cycle do birds experience?

Describe the effects of environmental cues on egg ovulation.

Describe Monestrous Cycle

Give an example of a type of animal that experiences Monestrous Cycle

Describe Spontaneous Ovulation

Describe Induced Ovulation

Give an example of an animal that is an induced ovulator.

How does estrogen affect a female animal's physiology?

How does estrogen affect a female animal's behavior?

Define Urogenital Sinus

Why is it important to know how the GI, Urinary, and Reproductive Tracts are arranged in an animal?

Define Gestation

Define Lactation

Define Weaning

Define Progeny

Define Ovulation

Define Puberty

Gonad

Ductwork

What is Sexual Reproduction?

Why is it necessary to know the reproductive terms?

What is Asexual Reproduction?

What are the advantages of Asexual Reproduction?

What are the advantages of Sexual Reproduction?

Why do the reproductive tracts appear differently dependent upon the strategies of internal vs
external fertilization?

Describe the tract of an internal fertilizer based on where the young develops.

Describe the tract of an external fertilizer based upon where the young develop.

What is Meiosis?

What is Parthenogensis?

Why is Parthenogenesis considered Sexual Reproduction?

What is X inactivation? When does it occur?

What does genetic variation mean to pet ownership?

Why does the bird egg need to have such
a significant yolk?

What are the advantages of Diploidy?

What are modifiers?

What are the names of Mendel's laws?

What is Mendel's Law of Segregation?

What is Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment?

What is the exception to Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment?

What are linked genes?

Give an example of Linked Genes

Describe the Orange color gene in cats.

What would it take for a female cat to be orange?

What is DNA?

What regulates an animal's appearance?

What are DNA strands arranged into?

What are genes?

Where are individual genes located?

What is the locus?

What are alleles?

Why is it important to consider the population and individual?

What is a good analogy to remember chromosome, gene and allele?

What are the advantages to diploidy?

What determines if an allele is dominant or recessive?

What is genotype?

What is homozygous genotype?

What is heterozygous genotype?

What is the different between allelic forms and allelic series?

Why would an animal's phenotype differ from it's genotype?

What is complete dominance?

What is incomplete dominance?

What is codominance?

Complete the sentence: In both incomplete dominance and codominance the animal's ______ is identical to its ________.