Moral Concepts and Behavior in Biotech

• What do you call the use of bioresources by multinational companies without proper authorization or compensation to the people or country concerned? Biopiracy
• Which of the following does not belong to the human benefits that come from the products of nature? Transportation
• A researcher conducts a clinical trial for a new gene therapy, but some participants experience severe side effects. What should the researcher do?

  Discontinue the trial and address the side effects immediately.
• Dr. Stone discovers a potential cure for a rare disease but only intends to provide it to wealthy patients who can afford the high treatment costs. What is morally responsible action for this?

   Provide the cure to all patients, regardless of their financial status.
• A group of researchers publishes a groundbreaking study on a potential bioweapon, including all the necessary details for its creation. What should the researchers do about it?

  Immediately withdraw the study and report it to relevant authorities.
• Humans also have interactions with the environment, and in fact depend upon the health of the environment for life. True
• Animals are being used for genetic engineering, for use in the production of useful substances such as proteins for medical purposes. False
• Ethics is a field of study that looks at the moral basis of human behavior and attempts to determine the best course of action in the face of conflicting choices. True
• Bioethics is a subfield of ethics applied to the physical sciences. False
• Biopiracy is about the use of bioresources with proper authorization or compensation to the people concerned. False
• Bioethics answers the question of “How should we decide who receives organ transplants?”. True
• There is no “right” or “wrong” answer on ethical decision making. False
• Passing a law to allow doctors to euthanize humans who are terminally ill, involves ethics. True
• Ethics is the main concern of biotechnology in the human genome project. True
• Social issues refer to people’s moral values or the code of conduct by which they live. False