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1. The baby doe regulations consider the withholding of medical care for these
handicapped infants to be neglect. The regulations provided three exceptions which are?
a. When the infant is chronically and irreversibly comatose
b. When the treatment would futile; or inhumane
c. When treatment would only prolong dying
d. All of the above
2. This Act was passed in the US in 1968 and has since revise in 1987 and in 2006. The
act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human
body parts in the US?
a. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 2006
b. Patient Self-Determination Act
c. Consumer Act
d. None of the above
3. With regards to Options for Increasing the Supply of Salvageable Organ, this option
would require all competent adults to decide and record whether they wish to become
organ donors at their death
a. Presumed consent
b. Mandated choice
c. Xenografting
d. All of the above
4. Failing to revive a patient who has signed a DNR order is an example of what type of
euthanasia?
a. Active euthanasia
b. Involuntary euthanasia
c. Passive euthanasia
d. All of the above
5. It is the first modern industrialized nation to fully sanction physician-assisted suicide.
a. Belgium
b. Germany
c. Netherlands
d. United States

1. This care is given for people living with a serious illness to relieve pain and alleviate their
suffering, example is patient with terminal cancer?
a. Rehabilitative care
b. Primary care
c. Secondary care
d. Palliative care
2. These programs are set up to provide palliative care, abatement of pain and an
environment that encourages dignity, but they do not cure or treat intensively.
a. Palliative programs
b. Hospice programs
c. Rehabilitation programs
d. None of the above
3. The best-known hospital in Great Britain, founded by Dr. Cicely Saunders in 1967?
a. St. Luke’s
b. St. Christopher’s
c. St. Agustin’s
d. All of the above
4. He is a noted ethicist and a theologian, in the situation of euthanasia he quoted that “It is
harder morally to justify letting someone die a slow and ugly death, dehumanized, than it
is to justify helping him to escape from such misery.”
a. Dr. Cicely Saunders
b. Joel Feinberg
c. Christopher White
d. Joseph Fletcher
5. Euthanasia is synonymously known as which means putting a person to death painlessly
or allowing them to die, as withholding extreme medical measures a person is suffering
from an incurable disease or condition?
a. Mercy killing
b. Suicide
c. Homicide
d. Killing me softly

1. Which of the following provides a complete list of chemical letters that compose the map
of a human genome?
a. Eugenics project
b. Stem cell research
c. Regenerative medicine
d. Human genome project
2. Which of the following is an example of a genetic disease?
a. Huntington’s Disease
b. Cystic fibrosis
c. Down syndrome
d. All of the above
3. Whose psychological quoted that “For almost every behavioral trait so far investigated,
from reaction time to religiosity, an important fraction of the variation among people turns
out to be associated with genetic variation.
a. Thomas Bouchard
b. Dan Abnett
c. Dr. Faustus
 d. None of the above
4. The study of methods for controlling the characteristics of future human populations
through selective breeding?
a. Human enhancement
b. Cryogenics
c. Eugenics
d. Genetic therapy
5. As discussed in this chapter, The republic, refers to the practice of infanticide for
diseased or disabled newborns.
a. Faustus’
b. Plato’s
c. Socrates’s
d. Bauchard’s

1. The practice of altering DNA by splicing parts of one into another?

a. Recessive gene
b. Recombinant DNA
c. Genetic carriers
d. Genetic predisposition
2. Genetic testing is generally performed for the following reason, EXCEPT?
a. Maternal testing
b. Newborn screening
c. Carrier screening
d. Prenatal diagnosis screening
3. In 2008, this act was passed to protect individuals from genetic discrimination by health
insurers and employees.
a. HIPAA
b. EMTALA
c. GINA
d. BAIPA
4. A genetically determined susceptibility to certain health problems is called.
a. Recessive gene
b. Recombinant DNA
c. Genetic carriers
d. Genetic predisposition
5. This is a disease that deforms red blood cells into thin, elongated sickle-shaped forms
and causes anemia, cough, and muscle cramps.
a. Sickle cell disease
b. Pernicious anemia
c. Down syndrome
d. Huntington disease
1. This is the study of genetic variation that influence individual response to drugs?
a. Pharmacology
b. Pharmacist
c. Pharmacogenomics
d. Gene therapy
2. A variant form of a given gene, which may determine a trait such as having type O or
type A Blood.
a. Eugenics
b. Heterozygous
c. Genetic testing
d. Allele
3. This is one of the most productive and promising applications of genetic engineering.
a. Gene therapy
b. Genetic pharmacy
c. Genetic testing
d. All of the above
4. In recombinant DNA technology, what is the commonly used bacterium?
a. E. Coli
b. Salmonella
c. Lactobacilli
d. Streptococcus
5. Genetic screening requires which of the following?
a. Sensitivity
b. Wisdom
c. Good science
d. All of the above

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

a. Allele
b. Heterozygous
c. Polygenic
d. Monogenic
2. Who wrote the book in 2013’s entitled to Creation: How science is reinventing life itself?
a. Peter Goodfellow
b. Francis Crick
c. Bryan Appleyard
d. Adam Rutherfold
3. The talking of 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
4. This is the treatment of genetic diseases by the administration of genes to correct an
absent or defective genes?
a. Genetic therapy
b. Genetic engineering
c. Genetic pharmacy
d. Genetic testing
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. Concern regarding manufacture
d. All of the above

1. These are immature cells that function as blank slate capable of becoming any cell in the
body?
a. Heterozygous
b. Recessive
c. Stem cells
d. All of the above
2. ____________ medicine is focused on growing specialized tissues for spinal cord
injuries, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and many other
currently unthought-of applications.
a. Specialized
b. Regenerative
c. Human enhancement
d. None of the above
3. A speculative theory that seeks re-conceive what is human.
a. Eugenics
b. Posthumanism
c. Human enhancement
d. Stem cell
4. An endocrinologist prescribed Human Growth Hormone to young boy who is 4 feet tall
and he grew 5ft. and 7 inches by the age of 16. This situation is an example of?
a. Stem cell
b. Eugenics
c. Human engineering
d. Human enhancement
5. A ____________ carrier is a person who carries a defective gene that, when combined
in reproduction with a similar one from another person, may yield a genetic defect.
a. Recessive
b. Heterozygous
c. Genetic
d. Diseased