Deck 17: Stem Cell Research, Cloning, and Genetic Engineering

Question 1

Who among the following is not mentioned, by MacKinnon, as a person who supports stem cell research?

A) Ronald Reagan
B) Christopher Reeves
C) John Kerry
D) Mary Tyler Moore

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Therapeutic cloning refers to the process by which

A) Clones are healed during development
B) Genetic material is created for therapies
C) A person's own stem cells are reproduced to facilitate healing
D) Genetic replicas are created for people who have lost pets

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Mammals have never been cloned.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Adult stem cells are

A) Monopotent
B) Multipotent
C) Pluripotent
D) Bipotent

Question 5

Give two objection to genetic screening.

Question 6

Cloning to make a human being is called therapeutic cloning.

Question 7

One truth about reproductive cloning is that

A) Cloned creatures are always physically unsound
B) Cloned people may not have souls
C) Identical twins are clones
D) Human clones would be used for body parts

Question 8

Pharmacogenomics would be a form of personalized medicine using genetic engineering techniques.

Question 9

At present the cloning of animals is somewhat inefficient and risky.

Question 10

What is a transgenic animal?

Question 11

The suggestion that using embryos from fertility clinics which would otherwise be destroyed or kept frozen is an ethical activity relies upon ________ reasoning

A) Egoism
B) Natural law
C) Categorical imperative
D) Utilitarianism

Question 12

The yuck factor argument to human cloning holds that we ought to trust our gut reactions to certain procedures as indicative of their moral nature.

Question 13

Give two of the reasons why we value privacy.

Question 14

Aborted embryos are not generally seen as a viable source of embryonic stem cells because

A) Generally a woman does not know for sure she is pregnant until after the embryo has grown beyond the blastocyst stage
B) Aborted embryos are the primary source of embryonic stem cells
C) The process of aborting the embryo cause irreparable damage to the organism
D) There is too much political and religious pressure to take he chance of using aborted material

Question 15

According to MacKinnon, how many human genes are there?

A) 20,000
B) 100,000
C) 2,000,000
D) 3,000,000,000

Question 16

The "playing God" argument against cloning

A) Is religious in nature
B) Is the same as the "yuck" argument
C) Is built on teachings in the Christian Bible
D) Is not necessarily a religious argument

Question 17

The argument that human personhood begins at conception and humans should not be used for scientific research is founded in

A) Categorical imperative
B) Utilitarianism
C) Natural law
D) Virtue ethics

Question 18

Human clones would be fully identical to one another.

Question 19

In 2002, one-third of the corn grown in the United States was genetically engineered.