Question

These rodents are the most common animals protected by the Animal Welfare Act, which excludes both rats and mice. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these lab animals used by Lavoisier and Koch. Today, they are a colloquial term for human test subjects.
ANSWER: guinea pigs [or domestic cavy or cavies; or Cavia porcellus or C. porcellus]
[10m] SV40 produces tumors in these rodents, which can transmit a reticulum-cell sarcoma via cannibalism. EGFR is absent in an ovarian cell line derived from a species of these rodents, which is used to produce most mAbs (“mabs”).
ANSWER: hamsters [or Cricetinae; accept Chinese hamster, Chinese hamster ovary cells, Chinese hamster ovaries, Cricetulus, C. griseus, or C. barabensis; accept golden hamster, Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus, or M. auratus; prompt on cricetids]
[10h] This docile dog breed was adopted en masse after Envigo’s Cumberland site was closed for AWA violations. A Superfund site at UC Davis exists to clean up a long-term radiation study on this breed, whose frequent use in non-rodent testing has attracted the ire of activists.
ANSWER: beagles [or English Beagle; prompt on scenthounds]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
BrownOttawa010010
Chicago AArizona State1010020
Chicago CIllinois100010
Chicago DColumbia B1010020
Georgia TechCornell B100010
HarvardChicago B1010020
IndianaIowa State1001020
Johns HopkinsDuke1010020
KentuckyBerkeley B100010
MarylandTruman State100010
Minnesota AMcGill100010
North Carolina AFlorida1001020
North Carolina BToronto B1010020
PennVanderbilt1001020
RutgersNYU1001020
South CarolinaYale A0000
StanfordPurdue1010020
TexasWUSTL B1010020
Toronto AVirginia100010
WUSTL AMinnesota B10101030
WaterlooBerkeley A100010
Yale BNorthwestern1010020

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2215.9191%46%23%