1734 Predict Question 1: The BMR of both remaining rats will be lower than the normal rat’s BMR Predict Question 2: The normal rat will become hyperthyroidic but will not develop a goiter. Predict Question 3: The normal rat will become hyperthyroidic and develop a goiter. Predict Question 4: The normal rat will become hypothyroidic and develop a goiter. Chart 1: Effects of Hormones on Metabolic Rate Normal rat Thyroidectomized rat Hypophysectomized rat Baseline Weight (g) Variable‚ 249–251 Variable
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normal rat was approximately ________ ml O2/kg/hr. 426 2. True or False: The BMR of all three rats was approximately the same before treatment with thyroxine‚ TSH‚ or propylthiouracil. true 3. Which rat had the fastest basal metabolic rate (BMR)? normal 4. Why did the BMR’s differ between the normal rat and the surgically altered rats? Because the metabolism of the normal rat was normal. The Tx and Hypox rats’ metabolism was altered from the removal of the pituitary gland (Hypox rat) and
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place in the research laboratory in Princeton University by Professor Bart Hoebel. He experimented with rats overeating a sugar solution. The rats would go twelve hours without food and than be given a sugar solution with their meal. The experiment was to release dopamine into the rat’s brain the same way in which it is released into a drug addict’s brain. The research concluded‚ “ that the rats developed many behaviors and changes in the brain that are similar to the effects of some drugs of abuse
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famous experiment associated with classical conditioning would be Little Albert‚ this was where little Albert was introduced to a pet rat and when he would play with the rat they would hit a gong causing an aversion conditioning (negative response can lead to phobias). The most famous experiment linked with operant conditioning is the Skinner Box. This was were a rat was placed in a box with to levers one of which was programmed to give food when pressed.
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are rat and cat the legend of the Chinese zodiac and cat and mice become enemies. Cat and rat and mice and cat the two where best friends and the came to be enemies in both stores. These stories are legends because they got passed on over and over again. The stories where about cats and mice/rats and they where talking about why cats and rats/mice don’t like each other any more. The theme of the story is that have you had a best friend and they betrayed you. although‚ at the begging rat and
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Dissections help researchers get a 3-dimensional picture of how the systems of a body work together. Now you’ll have the opportunity to see how the respiratory‚ digestive and circulatory system are arranged spatially. The Classification of the Rat (Rattus norvegicus): Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Genus: Rattus Species: Norvegicus Note: Dissection does not mean “to cut up.” Rather
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THE VIRTUAL RAT EXPERIMENT By Cassidy Blaikie 200407994 A laboratory report Presented to Jennifer Gauthier In Psychology 210 Learning Psychology Department of Psychology St. Francis Xavier University February 23‚ 2007 Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to test whether training a simulated rat under a Partial Reinforcement Schedule took longer to extinguish than being trained in a Continuous Reinforcement Schedule. The subject involved was a computer based rat. The rat was trained
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Albino female rats (210-250 g weight) and their 27 pups provided by Adnan Menderes University Medical Faculty Experimental Animal Laboratory‚ were used. The rats were restricted separately in plastic cages under artificial lighting from fluorescence lamps‚ with a 12-h light photoperiod and a 12-h dark photoperiod. The room temperature was set at 25°C constant heat and 45%-55%
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They Carried‚ Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon had a bona fide friendship that was equivalent to no other friendship. Mark Fossie and Mary Anne Bell also had a friendship that was beyond than just a friendship. Both relationships were so complementary but yet contradicted each other sufficiently.
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Rosenberg‚ he makes a reference that a rat has a better chance of surviving that he does. That even someone more worthless than him is going to survive this terrible thing called war. In this narrative poem‚ he is at war fighting in France during World War I‚ questioning his chance of survival. He comes in contact with a rat and starts to have a conversation with it about war and what the rat thinks of war. The author is jealous of the rat and knows that the rat will be the only one who will survive
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