Unit 7: Ethics in Biotechnology EOC review

Issues that refer to people’s moral values or the code of conduct by which they live

• Social issues

• Legal issues

• Cultural issues

• Ethical issues

What applications can gel electrophoresis be used for?

• Parental Testing
• Criminal Investigations
• Sequence Endangered Species DNA
• All of the above

Which of the following involves ethics?

• Passing a law to allow more crops to be grown per acre in a given area.

• Passing a law to allow doctors to euthanize humans who are terminally ill.

• Passing a law to increase fines for people texting while driving.

• Passing a law to decrease speed limits in an area of frequent accidents.

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An argument in favor of food biotechnology is that it

• provides foods that cure disease.
• provides more food to feed a growing population.
• provides a cash crop for low income nations.
• biotech foods are not controversial

What is one of the pros of Herbicide use?

• It makes weeding easier and cheaper for farmers

• It keeps animals away from crops

• Plants grow taller and stronger

• It makes more organic crops

What is the benefit of geneticially modified organisms?

• They may be better looking or more productive/effective
• They are easily reproduced
• They are higher in population
• They live longer/stronger

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Stem cells from a donor are cultured and then implanted into a person with Alzheimer’s disease. Why is this procedure most likely considered controversial?

• There are associated ethical and moral issues.

• There is an insufficient supply of donor cells.

• There is an increased risk of infection.

• The patient did not give consent.

Which situation is most likely to raise ethical questions about using biotechnology?

• increased crop yields

• new vaccine development

• increased job opportunities

• genetically modified food crops

All of the following are advantages of GMO's except

• pest resistant crops
• more nutritional foods
• unknown long term health effects
• creating more human insulin

Which of the following is not a concern of biotechnology?

• Ethics concerns with cloning humans.
• Health concerns about eating genetically modified foods.
• Concerns that we will harvest too much food for the global population.
• Environmental concerns of releasing genetically modified organisms into an ecosystem.

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