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B.) one-fourth
C.) one-half
D.) three-quarters
2.)
What is NOT a use for
bio-engineered plants mentioned in the chapter?
A.) Plants producing their own
pesticides.
B.) Producing proteins that
protect the plant from diseases.
C.) Producing photo-luminescent
chemicals to light a room.
D.) Acting as factories that
produce drugs for human consumption.
3.)
A man and his team disproved
a law of nature often quoted in textbooks.
His team’s work may have enormous medical benefits, such as spinal
cords, brain tissue and heart tissue being able to regenerate which might allow
us to heal broken backs, stroke and heart attack damage. What is the man’s name?
A.) James Potter.
B.) Ian Wilmut.
C.) Paul Schaeffer
D.) Jim Mathieson.
4.) What are polygenic traits?
A.) Genes that many organisms
share.
B.) Traits involving interaction
with many genes.
C.) A gene that affects many
traits.
D.) Traits that many organisms
share.
5.)
What happened to
the gene that coded humans to have hairy skin?
A.) It transformed into a gene for
suntan.
B.) It got turned off at some time
in our evolution.
C.) It decreased in size.
D.) It never existed.
6.) What behavior does the gene “fru” almost entirely control in the fruit fly?
A.) feeding
B.) egg laying
C.) courtship
D.) escaping danger
7.)
What did psychologists at the
A.) decisiveness
B.) eloquence
C.) charisma
D.) happiness
8.) It is believed that the nervous
system involves how much of the human genome?
A.) almost one-quarter
B.) almost half
C.) almost three-quarters
D.) almost one-third
9.)
In 1995 Walter Gehring and his colleagues at the
A.) eyeless
B.) eye master
C.) master eye
D.) optica
10.)
…the overriding question this very discussion raises is: is it ethical to manipulate
the human genome? If so, under what guidelines? The bio molecular revolution promises
not only to give us health and prosperity, but also to challenge our moral
principles and perhaps force us to redefine what?
A.) biology.
B.) who we are.
C.) what is right or good.
D.) what international laws we
should create to control other countries.
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11.)
Few will dispute the
tremendous accomplishments and potential of the bio-molecular revolution. However, even the creators of the
revolution have expressed reservation about the moral and ethical direction of
this revolution if its excesses are not checked. In a democracy only ___________________
can make the mature decisions about a technology so powerful that we can dream
of controlling life itself.
A.) a committee of the most
technically proficient people
B.) an informed debate by an
educated citizenry
C.) those who can afford it
D.) the free market
12.) With only a modest $10,000
investment, one can conduct biotech experiments in one’s living room and begin
to manipulate the genome of plants and animals. With just a few million one can create a
fledgling biotech industry. The low
initial investment, high return, and potential for feeding its people are some
of the reasons why a poor nation such as
A.) which countries can be
allowed to develop biotechnology.
B.) what regulating
organizations are needed.
C.) which of the various
technologies should be allowed to flourish
and which ones should be restricted.
D.) what locations
biotechnology should be restricted to.
13.) …should the government be allowed
to force people to be tested against their will? Arthur Caplan of the Center for
Bioethics believes that thirty years from now, health care costs will be so
exorbitant that some in the government may be tempted to call for mandatory
testing for genetic disease and simply
___________________________________________.
A.) jail
those who won’t be tested.
B.) prevent
those who won’t be tested from having children.
C.) throw up
their hands in disgust and give up.
D.) refuse to
pay the health costs for genetically detectable diseases.
14.) We need the improved treatments
that will eventually be developed using genetic information. So I think the answer is certainly not
to slow down the advancing science, but to ______________________________.
A.) stop it entirely.
B.) make the social system
more accommodating to the new knowledge.
C.) seek alternative means of
treatment.
D.) elevate biotechnology to
the level of a religion.
15.) The question is: what should be
the role of doctors? Are they
servants who are expected to simply carry out the wishes of the consumer? Or do we want them to be ministers and
guardians of morality, deciding what forms of treatment are unethical? Caplan predicts it’s going to be a
“whopping moral debate.” Yet,
banning such therapy could create what?
A.) a tremendous unnecessary
amount of suffering and number of lives lost.
B.) rioting in the streets by
people angry that they are forced to lose their lives and their loved ones.
C.) a thriving black market,
especially in 3rd world countries.
D.) a big problem in the medical
insurance industry.
16.) Theologians have debated about
whether a human clone has a “soul”.
If humans can be cloned without limit, then what determines their
_____________________?
A.) irreducible personal
substance.
B.) perspective.
C.) point of view.
D.) individuality and essence.
17.) One long-term danger for the far
future is that those who are the wealthiest will be able to afford to improve
their germ line, while others will not, leaving the rest of society behind,
eventually creating a new biological caste system. This could create _______________________.
A.) a class war.
B.) a genetocracy.
C.) lower taxes.
D.) a very unhappy
electorate.
18.) What is perhaps the greatest fear?
A.) having body odor on a
first date.
B.) higher taxes.
C.) aging.
D.) accidental release of an
incurable virus from a biological warfare center may threaten the existence of
the very human race.
19.) What does Francis Collins suggest
is the strongest mandates of humankind?
A.) the pursuit of ways to alleviate
human suffering.
B.) the quest for power.
C.) the desire for security.
D.) pursuit of happiness.
20.)
What is decisive in a democracy?
A.)
congress
B.)
statute law
C.)
constitutional law
D.)
informed debate by an enlightened electorate