Deck 12: Foods, Drugs and Unintended Consequences

Question 1

Technoscience applies to

A) any field of science.
B) only certain fields like chemistry.
C) only certain fields like medicine.
D) only technology, not pure science.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Humans have been genetically modifying plants and animals for

A) about 200 years.
B) about 100 years.
C) thousands of years.
D) less than 30 years.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Hybrid corn was created by

A) scientists working in a lab.
B) farmers.
C) seed corporations.
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The driving force behind the development of penicillin was

A) World War II.
B) desire for profit.
C) the Great Depression.
D) desire to win a Nobel prize.

Question 5

The impact of hormones was first discovered in the __________ century.

A) 20th
B) 19th
C) 5th
D) 21st

Question 6

Margaret Sanger, one of the driving forces behind the invention of oral birth control, was famous as the

A) first female senator.
B) founder of planned parenthood.
C) founder of Montessori.
D) first woman to burn a bra.

Question 7

Crick and Watson discovered

A) hormones.
B) birth control.
C) penicillin.
D) the structure of DNA.

Question 8

Scientists began promoting practical application of their work because they needed more __________.

Question 9

Both scientists in a lab and engineers and others doing practical, applied science were doing __________.

Question 10

The development of bacteriology was a result of the discovery of __________.

Question 11

The discovery of penicillin lowered death rates in some parts of the world so much that it resulted in __________.

Question 12

Scientists research __________ in an attempt to solve problems like infertility.

Question 13

The massive international effort to map the human gene is called __________.

Question 14

Foodstuffs can be considered technology.

Question 15

Advances in medicine have only positive impacts on society.

Question 16

All domesticated animals and plants are hybrids.

Question 17

The development of hybrid corn aided the downfall of the family farm.

Question 18

The benefit of hybrid corn was that it could be grown from natural seed.

Question 19

The approval of the first birth control pill in 1960 had huge social consequences.

Question 20

All new technology has both positive and negative consequences.