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Question 1
Which of the following has been shown to help crops require lower quantities of
insecticides in specific situations?

Response: Bt toxin

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 2
Why are children considered vulnerable research subjects?

Response: They are not capable of displaying assertiveness.

Score: 0 out of 1 No

Question 3
Which of the following is NOT a basis for the application of United States’ laws
on research of human subjects who are nonresidents of the U.S.?

Response: The relations of the U.S. with the country of the human research subjects

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 4
Which of the following refers to the avoidance of inflicting harm or inflicting
the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome?

Response: Non-maleficence

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 5
Which of the following resulted in cost and severe delay problems in the Golden
Rice study?

Response: Growing GMO crops have to proceed in open fields with skilled technicians

Score: 0 out of 1 No

Question 6
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of agroecological farming systems?

Response: Crops are resilient to climatic changes.

Score: 0 out of 1 No

Question 7
How do agroecological practices contribute to food security?

Response: By reducing farmers’ dependency on expensive and often hard-to-access

products (relying on self-produced and locally sourced inputs)

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 8
Which of the following assumes that the correct position between two (2) opposing
views, independent of the weight of evidence, is the midpoint between them?

Response: False Equivalency

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 9
Which of the following aims to promote and safeguard the health of patients,
including those who are involved in medical research, to keep in mind that the
well-being of the individual research subject must take precedence over all other
interests?

Response: Declaration of Helsinki

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 10
Which of the following requires all of the universities, hospitals, and other
research institutions in China to establish their own Institutional Review Boards?

Response: Regulation of Ethical Review for Biomedical Research Involving Human

Beings

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 11
Which of the following was developed by the United Nations based on concerns
initially expressed in the 1970s that recombinant DNA technology presented unusual
risks to man and the environment?

Response: Cartagena Protocol

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 12
Which of the following DOES NOT show how agroecology can support food sovereignty?

Response: It enables farmers to do monocultures with impacts on biodiversity.

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 13
Which of the following considers “the need to respect the will of the child and to
obtain his/her assent, taking into account his/her degree of maturity” as one of
its fundamental principles?

Response: European Ethical Considerations for Research in Pediatrics

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 14
Which bacterium is most commonly used in genetically modified plants?

Response: Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 15
Why are certain groups concerned about the growing influence of the chemical
industry on agriculture?

Response: They are concerned about what they consider to be an undesirable level of
control of seed markets by a few chemical companies.

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 16
What was the result of the European Commission’s scientific evaluation of GMO-
crops?

Response: Biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se riskier than, for
example, conventional plant breeding technologies.

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 17
Which of the following is the leading anti-GMO political organization in the
world?

Response: Greenpeace International

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 18
Which of the following is NOT an issue of concern for the environment related to
GMOs?

Response: The increase in the spectrum of other plants including growth of

biodiversity

Score: 1 out of 1 Yes

Question 19
Which of the following refers to the primary rule regulating human subjects
research?

Response: Common Rule