Quiz 1 2017 Answers
Quiz 1 2017 Answers
Quiz 1 2017 Answers
Assignment 005
Admission bias is
Select one:
a. When the sample of the population being observed died
b. When the population studied does not reflect the general population
c. When a subject is falsely classified as something else.
d. When not every subject is given the equal opportunity to be included in the study
According to the reading material that if deviation is still present the author should:
Select one:
a. They should change the topic of their research
b. Repeat the whole study until it has zero errors
c. Confess it in their articles by declaring the known limitations of their work
d. They should change the data and manipulate it to correct the errors
Having only research with positive result and not accepting of those with negative results would be a
form of what bias?
Select one:
a. Bias in Data Interpretation
b. Bias in Data analysis
c. Publication Bias
d. Bias in Data Collection
It is a form of bias that occurs when the study is supported by the company that wouldhelp the interest
of the same company but instead of conducting a correct form of experiment the conclusion of the study
was changed or manipulated.
Select one:
a. Selection Bias
b. Funding Bias
c. Survivor Bias
d. Volunteer Bias
Selection bias is
Select one:
a. Wrongly classifying a sample as part of the study when it shouldn't be.
b. Filtering the sample in the population to make sure that some part of the population will not be
represented
c. When the conclusion of the research is changed just to be centered in the interest of the company
supporting it.
d. When the people who are part of the study are those only interested to be part of the study and
would have a big difference to those who don't
Reporting non-existing data, eliminating data, and using inappropriate statistical tests are all part of
what?
Select one:
a. Bias in Data analysis
b. Publication Bias
c. Bias in Data Interpretation
d. Bias in Data Collection
It is any trend or deviation from the truth in data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and publication
which can cause false conclusions.
Select one:
a. Bias
b. Data Interpretation
c. Potential Conflict of interests
d. Data collection
It is a kind of bias which occurs when something is poorly defined, no gold standard for diagnosis of the
disease, or when a disease might not be easily detectable for example a disease.
Select one:
a. Misclassification Bias
b. Selection Bias
c. Admission Bias
d. Survivor Bias
According to the survey conducted by the Union of the Concerned Scientists in 2005 half the scientists at
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed that
Select one:
a. Private corporations did affect the withdrawal or reversal of scientific research conclusions
b. Corporate funding is crucial for the research community
c. That private funding have sped up the sharing of research results between different institutes
d. Privately funded researches are easily accessed by other researchers
According to Steven Nissen, a cardiologist in Cleveland Clinic, pharmaceutical industry's has a growing
influence over what?
Select one:
a. Medical research
b. Medical schools
c. Environmental Research
d. Biological science
According to the module, the amount of research in 2006 funded by private industries
Select one:
a. Increased
b. Nothing happened
c. Is the same as it was in 1965
d. Decreased
The following is seen crucial for any research organization except for
Select one:
a. Openness to debate and criticism
b. Having time for ideas to grow to maturity
c. Having hospitality toward novelty
d. Having the right private funding for researches
Transparency and objectivity of researchers can be affected by personal or financial interests. Directly or
indirectly. Research can be directly affected by the interests of the person conducting it if the person has
a direct benefit from a company such as stock ownership, grants, and patents. And indirectly if
Select one:
a. If the research is funded just heighten the demand of a certain product
b. If the product will provide some benefits to the expert/researcher.
c. The person will be given recognition, paid expert testimony, and support from sponsored organizations
of the company
d. If the person was employed before by the company who funds the research
What is external responsibilities of a researcher?
Select one:
a. It's a responsibility of the scientist to everything outside of his or her own
b. It is the role of the of the scientist to stick to the standards of the scientific community
c. The role of a scientist to take into account the health of his body
d. Refers to the role of the scientist or researcher not only to the scientific community but also to the
community outside of the laboratory.
It is also given in the module that scientist should have set both of its internal and external
responsibilities. How is internal responsibilities defined?
Select one:
a. It is the role of the of the scientist to stick to the standards of the scientific community
b. Refers to the role of the scientist or researcher to the scientific community but also to the community
outside of the laboratory.
c. It's a responsibility of the scientist to everything outside of his or her own
d. The role of a scientist to take into account the health of his body
Assignment 006
According to the article, cognitive self-esteem after using google gives people a sense of thinking that
google has become part of their cognitive tool set. This means that:
Select one:
a. They feel like they are smarter while they tend to rely on google
b. They boasted off something which was never really a part of them
c. People has been more confident with themselves
d. They finally get the sense of pride about their know
The authors describe It as a manner of changing how people think when they start to largely relay on the
internet for some facts
Select one:
a. Mental Distribution System
b. Transactive Memory System
c. Google Effect
d. Short-term Memory Reliance
The Stroop Task that they have given their subjects showed that:
Select one:
a. That people tend to think more about things on the internet compared to brands.
b. People tend to think more of food when they ask to name the color of something
c. People tend to associate hunger with knowledge
d. People tend to only answer easier questions when asked because they can easily remember its
answer.
In the experiment where a different group of people were told to copy 40 memorable factoids where
some of them were told that their work will be saved in a computer and some were told that there work
will not be saved, which of the following was a conclusion they derived from the experiment.
Select one:
a. The group that was told that the work will be saved where very good at remembering the facts given.
b. The group that was told that their work will not be saved had a hard time remembering what they
have worked on.
c. The group that was told that their work will be saved had remember their work with the same rate as
those who are told that their work will not be saved.
d. The group that was told that their work will be saved is much worse at remembering compared to the
group of people who are told that their work will not be saved.
According to the article, which of the following is one of the best reason why humans rely more on the
internet than another human beings when they are in search of answers.
Select one:
a. Because unlike another humans, the internet contains large volumes of facts.
b. Because the internet offers a better set of information than a regular person
c. Because people doesn't like interaction with other people anymore.
d. Because unlike humans internet are generally easier to access nowadays and can answer faster and
more accurate than another person.
On the last part of the of the article the authors had concluded that
Select one:
a. People in the future will be smarter than the people of today
b. The study needs more research to be able to understand how the mind works.
c. The internet may lead to a great improvement in the future where it will be a part of our memory
without risking our identity.
d. Google will soon be capable of controlling the behavior of a person using it having him as highly
reliant to it.
This is the tendency to distribute information where we consider a human mind as a storage of
information.
Select one:
a. Transactive Memory System
b. Google Effect
c. Mental Distribution System
d. Short-term Memory Reliance
It is a complex set of knowledge, ideas and methods and is likely to be the result of a variety of different
activities.
Select one:
a. Innovation
b. Invention
c. Idea Alteration
d. Technology
It is the intentional or reckless alteration or reckless hindering with the functioning of a computer or
computer network by imputing, transmitting, damaging, deleting, altering or suppressing computer data
or program.
Select one:
a. System Interference
b. Illegal Access
c. Data Interference
d. Illegal Interception
It is the emergence of new scientific or technological ideas that may be part of a random exogenous
process.
Select one:
a. Invention
b. Innovation
c. Technology
d. Idea Alteration
There are two activities involve in technical progress which is process innovation and which of the
following?
Select one:
a. Product application
b. Product Innovation
c. Process application
d. Product Invention
It refers to the freedom of the right of having access to every data on the internet.
Select one:
a. Internet Regulation
b. Internet Protection Act
c. Net neutrality
d. Cyberlaw
It is the product of laboratory scientist where it entails the conception of basic ideas
Select one:
a. Innovation
b. Invention
c. Idea Alteration
d. Technology
Assignment 007
Nanotechnology came from the Greek word "nanos" which means what?
Select one:
a. Small animals
b. Small objects
c. Small Person
d. Small circles
According to the article between the two manners of building materials which is more promising?
Select one:
a. Top-bottom approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Bottom-up approach
d. Top-down approach
It is a method of building nanomaterials by starting with individual atoms and bringing them together to
form a product
Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Top-bottom approach
c. Bottom-up approach
d. Down-top approach
c. Top-down approach
d. Down-top approach
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that requires federal agencies participating in National
Nanotechnology Initiative to what?
Select one:
a. Take part in knowing the opinions of people about nanotechnology
b. Develop a plan for environmental and safety research
c. Use nanotechnology to improve space travel.
d. Take further action in the improvement of nanotechnology research
Which of the following is one of the major challenges with nanotechnology given by the article?
Select one:
a. Religious group of people that is against nanotechnologny
b. Laws that doesn't support nanotechnology
c. Lack of researchers for this form of technology
d. Creating large quantities of nanoscale materials is still time-consuming and expensive
An action that is important for the sources of innovation and knowledge, especially for small companies.
Select one:
a. Asking the government for support to fund small scale industry to afford nanotechnology
b. Formulating laws that will provide protection for those who can't afford nanotechnology
c. Taking actions in cutting the access of big companies in nanotechnology
d. Collaborating with research community especially those coming from universities and other scientists
Which of the following is one of the reasons why nanotechnology faces challenges when it comes to
funding.
Select one:
a. The government lacks support to it because it's not part of their interests
b. It is not supported by science itself for being too costly limiting its practicality.
c. It risk on health, safety, and environment
d. Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that's why it's hard to find investors
The advancement of nanotechnology causes which of the following in the field of business?
Select one:
a. Incapability to follow the rules of the government
b. Lack of trust from the public
c. Less accessibility for smaller companies
d. Improvement on the role of nanotechnology to the people
Photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen storage and transportation are all part of which of the following areas
of application of a greener nanotechnology?
Select one:
a. Nanomaterials for the construction industry
b. Nanomaterials for water clean-up technologies
c. Nanomaterials for energy conversion
d. Nanomaterials for energy storage
According to the module intellectual property rights may become an issue as commercialization
progresses and nanotechnology matures because?
Select one:
a. In the age as nanotechnology matures it somehow produce many competitors out in the market
making it less possible to start up new patents.
b. People had always been very intact with their businesses that it would be hard for new businesses
with new patents to occur.
c. There are no laws that protects products made from or by nanotechnology which makes it hard to
patent future products
d. There is already a very wide range of patent claims, and the possible formation of patent thickets,
which could contribute to barriers to entry for companies.
The following are key findings on the impact of nanotechnology in business except which off the
following?
Select one:
a. Local companies see themselves predominantly as users of nanotechnology, rather than developers of
it
b. Businesses have concerns more about the unknown health and safety side-effects of nanotechnology
c. Business nowadays largely rely on nanotechnology and would need to come up with new form of
technology to fit in the futures of businesses
d. Government has a clear role of supporting nanotechnology according to companies
What does the review article "Opportunities and Challenges of Nanotechnology in the Green Economy"
analyze?
Select one:
a. It examines the production of new technologies for a green economy
b. It shows a discussions on the laws that nanotechnology may oppose upon its development
c. It shows the lack of support to nanotechnology because of the government's policies and low funding
on it.
d. It analyze the opportunities and challenges that nanotechnology have in building a greener economy.
The following are the primary modes of internet regulations except for:
Select one:
a. Laws
b. Bandwidth
c. Architecture
d. Markets
It is an admirable effort that aims to solve the world's great problems, it has a goal to achieve with a
given certain dates.
Select one:
a. Biopolicy
b. Bio-education
c. The Millennium Development Goals
d. World Referendum
Which of the following statement would best describe what the article "Playing god" is about?
Select one:
a. The article talks about a wider view of opinions about ethics in science
b. It was about the book of Jane Maienschein entitled "Whose View of Life"
c. It was a view of how many people are in favor of cloning
d. A basic analysis of opinions coming from the society about the works of scientist
A form of financial relationship which results to conflict of interest where it includes honoraria,
consultancies to sponsoring organizations, mutual fund ownership, and paid expert testimonies.
Select one:
a. Indirect relationship
b. Direct relationship
c. Company incentives
d. Net worth
It is the tendency to distribute information to other people who you think would remember a certain
information more than you do.
Select one:
a. Transactive Memory System
b. Google Effect
c. Intrapersonal memory banking
d. Memory Group Distribution
It is concerned with the relevance of biology and the life sciences for the public policy.
Select one:
a. Bio-economics
b. World Referendum
c. Bio-education
d. Biopolicy
It is a course being offered online by B.I.O. where it has a simplified text for non-experts who wish to
become acquainted with the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
Select one:
a. Bio-tourism
b. Waste management
c. Food and Agriculture
d. Common Agricultural Policy
Which of the following is not part of the three core ideas that Mark S. Frankel would like to see
integrated into graduate education?
Select one:
a. Science requires greater sacrifice coming from the life of the normal people
b. Young scientist should appreciate the global dimension of science
c. Young scientist should realize that their education and research are being subsidized by the society
d. Science is a social institution, with a mission and baggage like all other social institutions created by
human beings
It has a concept of linking the protection of bios rights to the defense of the rights of future generations.
Select one:
a. Biopolicy
b. Bio-Legislation
c. International University for the Bio-environment
d. The Millennium Development Goals
Pollution loads, genetically modified organism, water and soils, biotechnology, and environmental policy
are all part of which of the following courses?
Select one:
a. Common Agricultural Policy
b. Waste management
c. Food and Agriculture
d. Bio-tourism
One of the most obvious financial relationship which results to conflict of interest in research where it
includes stock ownership in a company, grants coming from the company, and patents.
Select one:
a. Company incentives
b. Net worth
c. Direct relationship
d. Indirect relationship
Which of the following statement would best define technology?
Select one:
a. It is the set of improvements that was seen throughout history
b. A group of knowledge used to improve something from the past including how it will be processed
c. It is the existing devices used by mankind to survive
d. Is a complex set of knowledge, ideas and methods and is likely to be the result of a variety of different
activities
Along studying a new drug for a disease which was in a span of three years, two of the subjects died,
which might be caused by old age. Which of the following bias would be fit to define the situation?
Select one:
a. Selection bias
b. Volunteer bias
c. Survivor bias
d. Misclassification bias
Which of the following statement would best define what the line "Technology is partially non-rival in
nature" means?
Select one:
a. It means that technology should not cause any form of war in every country
b. Technology can be used by the person without preventing the other person from using it either
c. The one who produces technology is the only one who competes with each other and not the people
relying on it
d. People are into sharing each other's technologies
It is the interception made by technical means without right of any non-public transmission of computer
data to, from, or within a computer system including electromagnetic emissions from a computer system
carrying such computer data.
Select one:
a. Illegal Interception
b. Illegal Access
c. Data Interference
d. System interference
Which of the following is not one of the reason for having a conflict of interest in doing a research?
Select one:
a. The reviewer is inappropriately influenced by his or her action.
b. An editor who has a financial or personal interest in doing the research
c. The researcher has a belief that could affect his or her objectivity
d. The scientist has a goal of helping the community
The health botanical published a paper that antioxidant was really helpful to our body, but after a week
it was found out that the researcher has a strong connection with a company that sells product which
claims that it contains antioxidants. What kind of bias can be derived from the situation?
Select one:
a. Misclassification bias
b. Funding bias
c. Survivor bias
d. Selection bias
It urges scholars, decision-makers, diplomats, business and civic leaders to actively contribute to the
development of a life supporting society.
Select one:
a. The Millennium Development Goals
b. Biopolicy
c. International University for the Bio-environment
d. Bio-Legislation
It is a course that B.I.O. places online where environmental management, natural resource economics,
international policy, EU environmental policy, and corporate policy are all part of it.
Select one:
a. Bio-ethics
b. Bio-economics
c. Bio-education
d. Biopolicy
A research surveyed an area to know the population of a certain species of bird. While gathering the
data, the researcher wrongly classified a group of birds and mistaken them to be the same kind of the
bird she was studying. What form of bias took place in gathering the data?
Select one:
a. Misclassification bias
b. Selection bias
c. Survivor bias
d. Funding bias
It is the intentional alteration or reckless hindering or interference with the functioning of a computer or
computer network by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering, or suppressing
right or authority, including the introduction or transmission of viruses
Select one:
a. Illegal Access
b. Data Interference
c. System interference
d. Illegal Interception
It is part of the research data recording which takes up about 5 hours in a one hour interview
Select one:
a. Publishing the paper
b. Referencing
c. Transcribing
d. Recording
Why is pluripotent stem cells have not yet been used therapeutically in humans? because many of the
early animal studies resulted in the undesirable formation of unusual solid tumors
Select one:
a. Because there was a lack of research about it
b. Because it is not as effective and as practical as multipotent stem cells
c. Because many of the early use of it develops tumors
d. Because the body tends to reject it and consider it foreign
A type of stem cell that shares some of the same characteristics as stem cells that came from embryos
such as proliferation, morphology and gene expression but came from adult differentiated cells
Select one:
a. Totipotent stem cell
b. Embryonic stem cell
c. Multipotent stem cells
d. Induced pluripotent Stem Cells
A type of stem cell that is restricted to becoming a more limited population of cells.
Select one:
a. Unipotent Stem cells
b. Totipotent Stem Cells
c. Multipotent Stem cells
d. Pluripotent stem cells
It is a type of stem cell that can become any cell in the adult body.
Select one:
a. Unipotent Stem cells
b. Multipotent Stem cells
c. Pluripotent stem cells
d. Totipotent Stem Cells
Multipotent stem cells harvested from bone marrow have been used since 1960's to treat the following
except what?
Select one:
a. Myeloma
b. Gymnostoma
c. Lymphoma
d. Leukemia
Cell that can only become one specialized cell type such as skin stem cells or muscle stem cells.
Select one:
a. Totipotent Stem Cells
b. Unipotent Stem cells
c. Pluripotent stem cells
d. Multipotent Stem cell
According to article which of the following would be the best definition for stem cell?
Select one:
a. Self-renewing and can differentiate to other types of cell
b. Capable of copying other cell and reproduce in a faster rate
c. Ability to reorganize itself into a new form of cell
d. Can reproduce and cure diseases
It is a self-organized system that performs complex life processes and is considered as the smallest unit
of life
Select one:
a. Water
b. Cell
c. Nucleus
d. Mitochondria
According to the module cellular activities are manifestations of which of the following.
Select one:
a. Cellular acquisition of nutrients
b. Existence of pathogenic organism in one's system
c. Having organelles capable for cellular movements
d. Intra and intermolecular transports and motions of cellular molecules
It has served as the catalyst for organizing and understanding vast knowledge from a system point of
view.
Select one:
a. Engineering
b. Informatics
c. Nanotechnology
d. Technology and science
Select one:
a. The process of developing existing materials into smaller ones
b. The use of technology to produce very small objects
c. The understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100
nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications
d. The improvement and production of new products in a scale of about 1 to 100 nanometers
The following, according to the module, are significant barriers to firms trying to enter nanotechnology
market except for
Select one:
a. Development and manufacturing cost of equipment
b. Policies which blocks the improvement of science and technology
c. Commercialization costs for nanotechnologies
d. Funds for research and development
b. Process Innovation
c. Product Innovation
d. Product Invention
Are biodegradable polymers, with the polymer-insulin matrix enclosed by the nanoporous membrane
containing grafted glucose oxidase?
Select one:
a. Implantable sensors
b. Microphysiometer
c. Insoluble glycerols
d. Polymeric nanoparticles
In orally taken insulin what coating is used to be able to protect the insulin from gastric juices
Select one:
a. Nucleic acid
b. Casein coating
c. Glucose oxidase
d. Mucosal membrane
The following are major factors limiting the bioavailability of nasally administered insulin except:
Select one:
a. A direct form of delivering insulin to the blood stream
b. Rapid mucociliary clearance mechanism that removes the non-adhesive formulations from absorption
site
c. Incapability of the body to absorb insulin in inhaling it
d. Poor permeability across the mucosal membrane
A type of diabetes where the body's cells do not respond to the presence of insulin.
Select one:
a. Diabetes mellitus
b. Nanomedicine
c. Type 1 diabetes
d. Type 2 diabetes
It acts both as protease inhibitors by protecting the encapsulated insulin from enzymatic degradation
within its matrix and as permeation enhancers by effectively crossing the epithelial layer after oral
administration.
Select one:
a. Microspheres
b. Polymeric nanoparticles
c. Casein coating
d. Silicon box
A type of diabetes where the pancreas is not capable of producing insulin for the body.
Select one:
a. Type 1 diabetes
b. Nanomedicine
c. Type 2 diabetes
d. Diabetes mellitus
The following are innovations with the use of nanotechnology in treating diabetes except:
Select one:
a. Insoluble glycerols
b. Microphysiometer
c. Polymeric nanoparticles
d. Implantable sensors
The following are the four social objectives that nanotechnology stakeholders should strive to achieve
except.
Select one:
a. Alerting societies to technological risks and failures
b. Developing a strong understanding of local and global forces and issues that affect people and
societies
c. Guiding local/global societies to appropriate uses of technology
d. Limit the access of the community to nanotechnology
Which of the following if the second step in the 10-step model for nanotechnology risk management?
Select one:
a. Identifying all nanoparticles
b. Division of the work for every staff or the Work Breakdown Structure
c. Involvement of Experts in the process of developing nanotechnology
d. Provide information about the nanomaterials
If there are uncertainties about the risks involve or not enough information or uncertainty about the
degree of exposure, what should the action be?
Select one:
a. Find more information or conduct a more detailed assessment
b. Report the incident to the health department to be able to minimize damages
c. Shut down the project
d. Maintain control procedures and minimize chances of higher exposure occurring
Eric Drexler has identified four challenges in dealing with the development, impact, and effects of
nanotechnology on society. Which of the following is not part of it?
Select one:
a. The Challenge of Technological Degradation
b. The Challenge of Technological Foresight
c. The Challenge of Technological Development
d. The Challenge of Formulating Public Policy
Which of the following is the first step for the 10-step model for nanotechnology risk management that
Goudarziet. al. has suggested?
Select one:
a. Division of the work for every staff or the Work Breakdown Structure
b. Provide information about the nanomaterials
c. Involvement of Experts in the process of developing nanotechnology
d. Identifying all nanoparticles
In the 8th step of the 10-step model for nanotechnology risk management, If the assessment shows that
there are significant risks to health beside from doing several actions in early steps the following are
further actions should be acquired except:
Select one:
a. Having First aid and Emergency facility
b. More precise monitoring procedures
c. Complementary employee training
d. Change the form of technology being harnessed
In a small workplace who should be the one to assess the work and the environment in the workplace?
Select one:
a. Managing Director
b. Assessment team
c. Project Manager
d. Assistant Manage
Which of the following is required to be done in the work place if nanoparticle-related intoxication is
reported?
Select one:
a. Develop new materials and ignore the case
b. Review and regulation of the assessment
c. Innovation of processes involved
d. Applying medical assistance to the one affected
When a person is in more than one group and the group standards do not align, which of the following
will be likely to happen
Select one:
a. Change of norms from one of the group
b. The person will leave one of the group
c. Norm realignment
d. The existence of normative conflict
People tend to save more energy if the message they received appealed to them if it implies a norm of
energy saving among neighbors compared to messages which asks them to save energy for the planet or
money. This simply means that
Select one:
a. Descriptive norms is less likely to influence a person
b. Normative influence is generally not detected compared to informational influences
c. Normative group pressure happened in the given situation
d. Injunctive norms is highly influential to a person
It is the process of conforming to descriptive norms which usually results to actions which genuine and
unrestrained.
Select one:
a. Social expectations
b. Social conformity
c. Normative group pressure
d. Informational social influence
It is formed in grouped situations and subsequently serve as a standards for the individual's perception
and judgment when he is not in the group situation.
Select one:
a. Social influence
b. Injunctive norms
c. Social norms
d. Descriptive norms
It is a type of norm that is characterized by what most people will approve or disapprove.
Select one:
a. Adaptive norms
b. Injunctive norms
c. Descriptive norms
d. Group norms
It is defined by the article as a negative attitude toward a group that is moving toward greater
acceptability, but not toward a group with normatively stable social rejection.
Select one:
a. Normative conflict
b. Energy Use
c. Regulatory focus
d. Prejudice
The article focused on analyzing the importance of social norms in two different domains which is:
Select one:
a. Peer generated norms and Family influence
b. Prejudice and Energy Use
c. Environmental Issues and Social Media Platform
d. Norms in the Community and Workplace
It is the process of conforming to a norm which is about what a group considers appropriate, moral, or
necessary.
Select one:
a. Social conformity
b. Normative group pressure
c. Informational social influence
d. Social expectations
According to Merton's "The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations science, like
any other activity involving social collaboration, is what?
Select one:
a. Needs people to handle it
b. The best way to survive social related problem
c. Subjected to shifting fortunes
d. Can survive change and maintain itself for era
The set of institutional imperatives where it adapts the idea that the substantive findings of science are
product of social collaboration and are assigned to the community.
Select one:
a. Organized Skepticism
b. Disinterestedness
c. Universalism
d. Communism
It is the set of institutional imperatives where it attributes the passion for knowledge, idle curiosity,
altruistic concern with benefit to humanity, and a host of other special motives to a scientist without an
outlook of engaging to selfish interest.
Select one:
a. Universalism
b. Organized Skepticism
c. Communism
d. Disinterestedness
It is the set of institutional imperatives where it is variously interrelated with the other elements of the
scientific ethos.
Select one:
a. Universalism
b. Communism
c. Disinterestedness
d. Organized Skepticism
According to the module the communism of scientific ethos is incompatible with the definition of
technology as private property in what?
Select one:
a. A democratic point of view
b. Scientific research
c. Scientist doing the research
d. A capitalistic economy
It is under universalism where it is tantamount to the progressive elimination of restraints upon the
exercise and development of socially valued capacities.
Select one:
a. Impersonal criteria
b. Particularism
c. Democratization
d. Ethnocentrism
The norms in the ethos of science are expressed in the form of prescriptions, proscriptions, preferences,
and which of the following?
Select one:
a. Partitions
b. Percussions
c. Admissions
d. Permissions
The set of institutional imperatives where it finds immediate expression in the canon that truth claims
are to be subjected to pre-established impersonal criteria.
Select one:
a. Disinterestedness
b. Organized Skepticism
c. Communism
d. Universalism
The first step on the 10-step model for nanotechnology risk management states that "A basic knowledge
of the work is essential for doing an adequate assessment". Which of the following statement would be
able to explain what it means
Select one:
a. The knowledge of only one person would never be enough to develop nanotechnology.
b. The statement means that the person doing the job should be act professional
c. It only says that everyone using and developing nanotechnology should know everything about it
d. It means that a person with the right knowledge should always be involved
A sheet of pure, carbon graphite rolled into cylinders usually a few nanometers in diameter and between
1 and 100 micrometers.
Select one:
a. Buckyball
b. Nanotube
c. Nanodrug delivery
d. Nanosensors
A stem have four fates/outcomes, which of the following is the first one?
Select one:
a. Dividing into two daughter cell where one is the same as the parent stem cell and the other is
differentiated
b. Producing two daughter cells increasing the stem cell pool
c. Remain Quiescent without dividing or differentiating
d. Producing two new daughter cell where both are different and highly differentiated from the parent
stem c
In building nanotechnology which of the following approach is where you start with individual molecules
and create a product from there.
Select one:
a. Top-bottom approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Bottom-up approach
d. Top-down approach
It is a type of cell that is capable of perpetual self-renewal and has the ability to differentiate into
specialized adult cell type.
Select one:
a. Red Blood Cells
b. Stem Cell
c. Somatic Cells
d. Progenitor Cells
They are molecules that have an uneven number of electrons making them unstable and highly reactive.
Select one:
a. Hydrochloric acid
b. Acidic substances
c. Antioxidants
d. Free radicals
It is a form of stem cell where adult cells were taken back into a pluripotent state by molecular
manipulation.
Select one:
a. Unipotent Stem Cells
b. Multipotent Stem Cells
c. Pluripotent Stem Cells
d. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
The following are challenges in dealing with the development, impact, and effects of nanotechnology to
the society except for
Select one:
a. Credibility and Understanding
b. Technological Development and Foresight
c. Formulating Policy
d. Salary Equality
Which of the following statement would best define what product innovation is?
Select one:
a. It is where the developer focuses on developing new technologies and modifying the process of
producing a certain product
b. It is changing the way a product is being used
c. It is the enhancement of a product in response to anticipated or actual demand
d. It is where the technologies created follows a certain trend in the development of technologies
Which of the following would best describe what product innovation is?
Select one:
a. It is the use of technology to be able to maintain existing product in the market
b. An application of science and technology where it is focused on developing new technologies and thus
new markets
c. It is where nanotechnology is mostly used, often in response to anticipated or actual demand for
specific product characteristics
d. It is a result of product invention driven by the needs of the many
The following are all forms of mutation that can be found in a DNA except for
Select one:
a. Rearrangements
b. Mismanagement
c. Deletion
d. Insertion
The process of copying the DNA sequence of a gene into messenger RNA is referred to as
Select one:
a. Deletion
b. Activation
c. Transcription
d. Translation
Select one:
a. DNA has less base pairs
b. RNA is not capable of being translated
c. RNA is triple helix in structure
d. Uridine take the place of thymine
It refers to the differential expression of maternal and paternal alleles for a particular gene.
Select one:
a. Imprinting
b. Anticipation
c. Mitochondrial inheritance
d. Variable expressivity
Select one:
a. Recessive Traits
b. Dominant traits
c. X-linked Traits
d. Inherited Traits
Select one:
a. Three months of analysis
b. A large amount of money
c. Thorough counseling and evaluation
d. A complete health information slip
The combined impact of two distinct Mendelian disease variants often leads to which of the following,
which makes it hard to diagnose?
Select one:
a. Unrecognizable Disease
b. A new form of disease
c. Extremely painful symptoms
d. A hybrid phenotype
It allows testing of embryos for a specific genetic variants to make sure that the conceived embryo will
have less chances of developing abnormalities or diseases.
Select one:
a. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
b. Mutation analysis
c. Genetic Inheritance
d. Phenotype analysis
Which is the biggest and perhaps most visible risk of adopting digitized health records?
Select one:
a. Data reliability
b. Data security
c. Information Policies
d. Data availability
Health systems need a comprehensive approach to data security that includes all aspects of their
operations to be able to prevent which of the following?
Select one:
a. Medical doctors to access the data
b. Protect the records from the patient itself
c. Political parties to use data against opposing parties
d. Cyber-attacks which may harm the confidentiality of health records
Gathering detailed family history, systematically evaluating the patients phenotype, reviewing medical
literature and databases for possible overlap with known syndromes or implicated biochemical
pathways, and obtaining informed consent are all needed to satisfy which of the following according to
the module?
Select one:
a. Requirements for genome analysis
b. Background check of the patient
c. Proper interpretation of genomic variant
It is the production of recombinant and biologically active proteins in the mammary gland and this in
turn could be used for the benefit of mankind
Select one:
a. Transgene diagnostic
b. Gene Pharming
c. Gene mapping
d. Polymerase Chain Reaction
It is a plasmid or viral DNA employed in recombinant DNA technology to clone a foreign gene in
prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell.
Select one:
a. DNA Polymerase
b. Animal Model
c. Viral DNA
d. Vectors
With all the potential of having transgenic animals people still have reservations about the idea of it.
Which of the following is not included in the main reasons for not supporting the production of
transgenic animals.
Select one:
a. It is felt that by using animals for the production of pharmaceutical proteins we reduce them to mere
factories.
b. Use of animals in biotechnological research causes great suffering to the animals.
c. Some people feel that animals should be regarded as equal to humans in that they have the same
basic rights as human beings
d. It cost more money compared to other forms of research
Which of the following is NOT true about milk production and lactation in transgenic animals
Select one:
a. Transgenic animals also could be developed to produce infant milk that has increased levels of human
lactoferin
b. Transgenic animals could be made to secrete nutraceuticals in milk that may have an impact over the
growth of offspring.
c. Transgenic animals is capable of overproduction of growth hormone making it five times heavier than
it should be.
d. Transgenic animals could also be made to secrete antibodies in their milk
Technique in gene transfer where cells are exposed to electric field which causes the membranes to
become polarized and a potential develops across the membrane thereby breaking at localized areas and
thus the cell becomes permeable to exogenous molecule
Select one:
a. Electroporation
b. Viral Technique
c. Pronuclear Injection
d. Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
Technique in gene transfer where it involves the microinjection of exogenous DNA into the pronucleus of
a fertilized ovum.
Select one:
a. Pronuclear Injection
b. Viral Technique
c. Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
d. Electroporation
It is the old term for the study of the processes of fermentation in yeast and bacteria in the production
of foods and beverages such as bread, cheese, tofu, beer, wine, wine, nato, etc.
Select one:
a. Zymotechnology
b. Bioengineering
c. Biocolonialism
d. Biotechnology
It is the commandeering of knowledge and biological resources from an indigenous people without
compensation.
Select one:
a. Bioengineering
b. Zymotechnology
c. Biocolonialism
d. Biotechnology
It applies the techniques of modern biology to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental
impacts of industrial processes like textile, paper and pulp, and chemical manufacturing.
Select one:
a. Genomic Sequencing
b. Industrial Biotechnology
c. Zymotechnology
d. Genetic Engineering
Which of the following would best describe the effort of Imitation rhizobia production?
Select one:
a. Developing drugs that would protect humans from severe bacterial infection
b. Producing single-cell protein bacteria
c. Developing bacterial fertilizers that could convert nitrogen to ammonia
d. Having bacteria that will help in the fermentation process of sugar to produce bioethanol
Increase crop yield, greater flexibility in growing environments, less use of chemical pesticides and
improved nutritional content are all parts of which of the following
Select one:
a. Agricultural biotechnology
b. Genomic Sequencing
c. Genetic Engineering
d. Industrial Biotechnology
It is defined as any use of biological organism or processes in industrial, agricultural and environmental
engineering.
Select one:
a. Biotechnology
b. Biocolonialism
c. Zymotechnology
d. Bioengineering
It is the process of transferring individual genes between organisms or modifying the genes in an
organism to remove or add a desired trait or characteristic.
Select one:
a. Zymotechnology
b. Biotechnology
c. Genomic Sequencing
d. Genetic Engineering
Which of the following did Karl Ereky contributed in the field of biotechnology?
Select one:
a. He claimed that we could regard life as a series of technical problem
b. He was the one who coined the term biotechnology
c. He divided the history of technology into three stages
d. He produced 110 tons of single-cell protein bacteria
The following are tools or technologies that is very important in precision farming except
Select one:
a. Analytics software
b. Global Positioning System
c. Robots and sensors
d. Android Operating System
Which of the following would best explain how culture affects science?
Select one:
a. Culture will ever affect science
b. The society's view depends on the culture that they have and it affects what form of technology the
society will accept
c. The researcher will always try to do research which is always related to the culture that people have
d. The people will always look at science in a very cultural manner where it will be the priority for the
nation
It is adopting technologies on a nanoscale to be capable of producing products that would address issues
in the environment and its effect on the community.
Select one:
a. Science for the environment
b. Environmental science
c. Green technological advancement
d. Green Nanotechnology
Stem cells which has restriction on becoming a more limited population of cells
Select one:
a. Pluripotent Stem Cells
b. Unipotent Stem Cells
c. Multipotent Stem Cells
d. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Which of the following would best define what process innovation is?
Select one:
a. It is where the technologies created follows a certain trend in the development of technologies
b. It is changing the way a product is being used
c. It is the enhancement of a product in response to anticipated or actual demand
d. It is where the developer focuses on developing new technologies and modifying the process of
producing a certain product
Which of the following would perfectly define what an acetogenic organism is?
Select one:
a. It is an organism capable of surviving an environment with high acetic acid content
b. It is an organism highly capable of processing water to be able to produce acetone
c. It is an organism capable of producing acetate from carbon dioxide in an anaerobic environment.
d. Organism who tends to consume acetate to be able to produce glucose
It offers the opportunity for querying genomic data at the point of care as
patients are prescribed medications for the first time and new associations
among drugs, genetic variant, and dosing requirements or side effect risks are
discovered and validated.
Pharmacogenic Data
In this part of influence the overall context of a scientist's life, which includes
science and much more, a scientist will seek consistency between the science
and non-science aspect of life Personal consistency