RATIONALIZATION ACTIVITY 22

1. When a disease is the result of a combination of genes, it is called?

A. Allele
B. Heterozygous
C. Polygenic
D. Monogenic

Answer: C
Polygenic is a disease caused by a combination of genes
Monogenic is a disease caused by single gene
Allele is a variant form given gene, which may determine a trait such as having type O or type A blood.
Heterozygous is when a children inherit one allele from each parent. When the child has one, say, for sickle cell anemia,
and one that is normal, we say the child is heterozygous.

2. Who write the book in 2013 which entitled to Creation: How science is reinventing life itself?
A. Peter Goodfellow
B. Francis Crick
C. Bryan Appleyard
D. Adam Rutherford

Answer: D
In Adam Rutherford book, Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself? He explains how four billion years of
evolution has worked at the cellular level, and then introduces us to current scientist reengineering existing cells.
It is a matter of “copying”, adapting, and transforming what has come before.”

3. The taking of a somatic cell from an adult animal, inserting it into an egg, and growing an identical twin is an example
of?
A. Cloning
B. Stem cell
C. Xenografting
D. All of the above

Answer: A
Cloning, the process of generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism

4. This is the treatment of genetic diseases by the administration of genes to correct an absent or defective gene?
A. Genetic therapy
B. Genetic engineering
C. Genetic pharmacy
D. Genetic testing

Answer: A
Genetic therapy is a treatment of genetic diseases by the administration of genes to correct an absent or defective gene.
Example, treating cancer patients.

5. The President’s Council on Bioethics holds that cloning-to-produce-children would be radically new form of human
procreation that leads to concern such as which of the following?
A. Troubled family relations
B. Prospect of a new eugenics
C. Concerns regarding manufacture
D. All of the above

Answer: D
All of the above mention are concerns about the new form of human procreation and also includes, problems of identity and
individuality and effects on the family.