| FRAME | Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments |
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| ICLA | International Committee on Laboratory Animals |
| ImD50 | immunizing dose sufficient to protect 50% of the animals in a test group |
| RSPCA | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| SPCA | serum prothrombin conversion accelerator; Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
| sexual reproduction | The process where two cells (gametes) fuse to form one hybrid, fertilizedcell, results in a new genome that is different than that of either parent. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| somatic reproduction | Asexual reproduction by fission or budding of somatic cells. (05 Mar 2000) |