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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
  • Illegal Interception
  • Data Interference
  • Illegal Access
  • System interference Correct
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.
  • Data Interference
  • Illegal Access
  • System Interference Correct
  • Illegal Interception
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.
  • System interference
  • Illegal Access
  • Data Interference
  • Illegal Interception Correct
It is the lessening of pain that an animal subject should undergo to.
  • Replacement
  • Refinement Correct
  • Resurrection
  • Reduction
It is the principle describing the quest for unconventional knowledge through systematic investigation and experimentation.
  • Discovery Science Correct
It is the process of conforming to a norm which is about what a group considers appropriate, moral, or necessary.
  • Normative group pressure Correct
  • Informational social influence
  • Social conformity
  • Social expectations
It is the process of conforming to descriptive norms which usually results to actions which genuine and unrestrained.
  • Normative group pressure
  • Informational social influence Correct
  • Social conformity
  • Social expectations
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.
  • Genomic Sequencing
  • Genetic Engineering Correct
  • Biotechnology
  • Zymotechnology
It is the product of laboratory scientist where it entails the conception of basic ideas
  • Idea Alteration
  • Technology
  • Invention Correct
  • Innovation
It is the scientific statements that scientists make based on the results of experimentation.
  • Logical Generalization Correct
It is the second stage of clinical trial where it involves testing on animals?
  • Preclinical Trials Correct
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.
  • Universalism
  • Communism
  • Organized Skepticism
  • Disinterestedness Correct
It is the set of institutional imperatives where it is variously interrelated with the other elements of the scientific ethos.
  • Organized Skepticism Correct
  • Communism
  • Disinterestedness
  • Universalism
It is the tendency to distribute information to other people who you think would remember a certain information more than you do.
  • Intrapersonal memory banking
  • Memory Group Distribution
  • Google Effect
  • Transactive Memory System Correct
It is under the cultural influence of science that is based on subjective values and political goals for the way things should be in society.
  • Ideological Principles Correct
It is under universalism where it is tantamount to the progressive elimination of restraints upon the exercise and development of socially valued capacities.
  • Democratization Correct
  • Particularism
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Impersonal criteria
It is what IRB requires researchers to obtain from human subjects.
  • Informed Consent Correct
It is where sensors, robots, GPS, Mapping tools, and data analytics software are all combined into farming to be able to produce a machine capable of customizing care for plants and therefore lower the needs for labor.
  • Farming Enhanced Technology
  • Technological Agriculture
  • DuPont Tech Farming Robot
  • Precision Farming Correct
It is where the effectiveness and toxicity of the drug under the development stage are tested
  • Informed Consent
  • Office for Human Resource Protection
  • Animal Models Correct
  • Clinical Trial
It published the Public Health Service (PHS) policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.
  • NIH Office of Protection from Research Correct
It refers to the differential expression of maternal and paternal alleles for a particular gene.
  • Anticipation
  • Mitochondrial inheritance
  • Variable expressivity
  • Imprinting Correct
It refers to the freedom of the right of having access to every data on the internet.
  • Internet Protection Act
  • Cyberlaw
  • Internet Regulation
  • Net neutrality Correct
It refers to the legal issues related to the use of Internet.
  • Internet Regulation
  • Internet Protection Act
  • Net neutrality
  • Cyberlaw Correct
It refers to the reduction of frequency or level of pain and distress that animals experience in biomedical experimentation
  • Refinement Correct
It refers to the reduction of frequency or level of pain and distress that animals experience in biomedical experimentation.
  • Refinement Correct
  • Justice
  • Replacement
  • Public Health Service
It refers to the use of lower species in biomedical experimentation as much as possible.
  • Replacement Correct
It refers to the way scientific knowledge is transferred from an area of science to a territory of technology.
  • Academic Science Correct
It relates to science as an interplay between the works of scientists and the active involvement of the people in examining the products of scientific inquiry.
  • Logical Generalization
  • Science as a Cultural Resource
  • Science as a Social Enterprise Correct
  • Academic Science
It shows the impact of science on societal values and cultural beliefs.
  • Science as a Cultural Resource Correct
It urges scholars, decision-makers, diplomats, business and civic leaders to actively contribute to the development of a life supporting society.
  • Biopolicy
  • The Millennium Development Goals
  • Bio-Legislation
  • International University for the Bio-environment Correct
It urges the scholars, decision-makers, diplomats, business and civic leaders to actively contribute to the development of a life-supporting society.
  • Biopolicy
  • International University for the Bio-environment Correct
  • Millennium Declaration
  • United Nations
It was the one who generally accepted the principles contained in the Belmont Report.
  • Institutional Review Board Correct
It's a study involving an -year-old male illustrates the need to disclose to the participants all risks involved in a biomedical research study
  • Gene Therapy Correct
It's a study involving an 18-year-old male illustrates the need to disclose to the participants all risks involved in a biomedical research study.
  • Gene Therapy Correct
  • In Vitro
  • Side Effects
  • Drug
Liquid Biopsy is capable of detecting which of the following?
  • Cancer Correct
Modified buckyballs can be used for
  • Delivering free radicals inside our body
  • Enter the brain and help regenerate the brain tissues
  • Harvesting the energy from the sun
  • Trapping harmful chemicals inside the body Correct
Multipotent stem cells harvested from bone marrow have been used since 's to treat the following except what?
  • Gymnostoma Correct
Multipotent stem cells harvested from bone marrow have been used since 1960's to treat the following except what?
  • Myeloma
  • Lymphoma
  • Gymnostoma Correct
  • Leukemia
Nanotechnology came from the Greek word "nanos" which means what?
  • Small circles
  • Small objects
  • Small animals
  • Small Person Correct
Nanotechnology has enabled the following except
  • Production of new unique materials
  • Destruction of hunger in Africa Correct
  • Advancement of existing technologies
  • Inventions of molecular scaled devices
Nanotechnology has social objectives that stakeholder should strive to achieve, which of the following is not one of them?
  • Alerting societies to technological risks and failures
  • Guiding every societies to the right uses of technology
  • Developing a strong understanding of local and global forces and issues that affect people and societies
  • Limit the access of the community to nanotechnology to prevent damage on the environment and the people Correct
National Nanotechnology Institute defines nanotechnology as
  • The understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications Correct
  • The improvement and production of new products in a scale of about 1 to 100 nanometers
  • The use of technology to produce very small objects
  • The process of developing existing materials into smaller ones
On the last part of the of the article the authors had concluded that
  • The study needs more research to be able to understand how the mind works
  • The internet may lead to a great improvement in the future where it will be a part of our memory without risking our identity Correct
  • People in the future will be smarter than the people of today
  • Google will soon be capable of controlling the behavior of a person using it having him as highly reliant to it
One of the major challenges global agriculture faces is
  • Feeding more people with less land Correct
  • Lowering Chemical production
  • Improvement of Agricultural Industries
  • Laws and regulation inclined with improvement of irrigations
One of the members of IACUC must be a __________.
  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Correct
One of the members of the Institutional Animal Care Use Committee who would oversee all aspect of animal care is required to be which of the following?
  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Correct
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.
  • Net worth
  • Direct relationship Correct
  • Indirect relationship
  • Company incentives
Overall the module talks about
  • The increase of demand for government funded researches
  • The importance of research to the people and the industry funding it
  • The lack of budget and support to the scientific community
  • The problem faced by the scientific research community in response to the conflict of interest with different privately owned corporations funding researches Correct
Part of the government in United States that gives approval to clinical trials with successful outcomes.
  • Office for Human Research Protection
  • Food and Drug Administration Correct
  • Animal Models
  • Clinical Trial
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
  • Normative group pressure happened in the given situation
  • Normative influence is generally not detected compared to informational influences Correct
  • Descriptive norms is less likely to influence a person
  • Injunctive norms is highly influential to a person
Photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen storage and transportation are all part of which of the following areas of application of a greener nanotechnology?
  • Nanomaterials for the construction industry
  • Nanomaterials for energy storage
  • Nanomaterials for energy conversion Correct
  • Nanomaterials for water clean-up technologies
Pollution loads, genetically modified organism, water and soils, biotechnology, and environmental policy are all part of which of the following courses?
  • Waste management
  • Common Agricultural Policy
  • Food and Agriculture Correct
  • Bio-tourism
Prior to preclinical trials, the drugs under investigation are tested in what condition.
  • Gene Therapy
  • In Vitro Correct
  • Drug
  • Side Effects
Process innovation is defined as
  • The change in process just to lessen the time it takes to create something
  • Improvement in the product created
  • Change in the process of doing something to either lower the cost of production or to satisfy the new ways of satisfying existing wants Correct
  • Change in the rate of producing product making it faster than usual
Producing acetate out of carbon dioxide and sunlight using nanowires and bacteria, and subsequently producing valuable chemicals using out of acetate using engineered bacteria is an example of what?
  • Hybrid Technology Correct
Quantum computing aims to solve problems that cannot be answered by a simple machine examples of the problems that it can aims to solve are the following except:
  • Problems related to Logarithmic Functions Correct
Reporting non-existing data, eliminating data, and using inappropriate statistical tests are all part of what?
  • Publication Bias
  • Bias in Data Collection
  • Bias in Data Interpretation
  • Bias in Data analysis Correct
Republic Act No is also known as
  • Cybercrime Prevention Act Correct
Republic Act No. 10175 is also known as
  • Internet Speed Improvement Act
  • Anti-Cyberbullying Law
  • Cybercrime Prevention Act Correct
  • Net Neutrality Act
Rural Electrification Act is
  • It is an act that has a goal of having private companies support the production of electricity in different areas in United States
  • A law that enacted to bring electric power to most rural areas of the United States Correct
  • A law proposed to develop several sources of clean energy
  • It is an act of creating more jobs for people in the field of harvesting energy and turning them into electricity
Science as a cultural resource shows which of the following?
  • The impact of science on societal beliefs and values Correct
Science as a social enterprise relates to science itself as an interplay between which of the following?
  • The industry that offers technology and the people relying on it
  • The works of scientists and the active involvement of people examining the product of scientific inquiry Correct
  • The government and the scientist working for them to provide improvement in military science for the protection of the people
  • The knowledge and foundations set by past scientist and the scientist of today
Science is commonly used to denote the following except:
  • A set of characteristic method by means of which knowledge is certified
  • A way of developing new skills to improve the world around us Correct
  • A stock of accumulated knowledge stemming from the application of these methods
  • A set of cultural values and more governing the activities termed scientific
Selection bias is
  • When the conclusion of the research is changed just to be centered in the interest of the company supporting it
  • 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 Correct
  • Filtering the sample in the population to make sure that some part of the population will not be represented
  • Wrongly classifying a sample as part of the study when it shouldn't be
Sox and Oct are transcription factors which
  • Reprogram the adult nucleus back into its embryonic state Correct
Sox2 and Oct4 are transcription factors which
  • Causes death in adult stem cells it was exposed to
  • Reprogram the adult nucleus back into its embryonic state Correct
  • Create a multipotent stem cell inside the bones
  • Change embryonic stem cells into new developing cells
Stem cells which has restriction on becoming a more limited population of cells
  • Unipotent Stem Cells
  • Multipotent Stem Cells Correct
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells
  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Targeted multiplex genotyping screens which of the following
  • Phenotypes that a person has
  • Mutations present in a person's genes Correct
  • Specific segment in the DNA that is essential for expression of facial features
  • Multiple character that a person exhibits
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
  • Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
  • Viral Technique
  • Electroporation Correct
  • Pronuclear Injection
Technique in gene transfer where it involves the microinjection of exogenous DNA into the pronucleus of a fertilized ovum.
  • Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
  • Pronuclear Injection Correct
  • Electroporation
  • Viral Technique
Technosciencerefers to the strong interactions in contemporary scientific research and development between that which traditionally was merged into science and technology.
  • False Correct
The _________ formalized the Declaration of Helsinki in 1964.
  • World Medical Association Correct
The advancement of nanotechnology causes which of the following in the field of business?
  • Improvement on the role of nanotechnology to the people
  • Less accessibility for smaller companies Correct
  • Incapability to follow the rules of the government
  • Lack of trust from the public
The animal which are genetically engineered is called as
  • Enhanced Animals
  • Transgenic Animals Correct
  • Physiologically Modified Organism
  • Cloned Animals
The article focused on analyzing the importance of social norms in two different domains which is:
  • Environmental Issues and Social Media Platform
  • Peer generated norms and Family influence
  • Norms in the Community and Workplace
  • Prejudice and Energy Use Correct
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