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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