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True or False: A correctly positioned placenta is called a placenta praevia. - ✔✔False
True or False: Eclampsia is a toxic disturbance of late pregnancy. - ✔✔True
True or False: Chorioamnionitis is the normal rupture of the extraembryonic membranes in
anticipation of birth. - ✔✔False
True or False: Abnormal pregnancies include genetic conditions such as Down Syndrome, other trisomy-
related genetic issues, and a variety of other genetic concerns. - ✔✔True
True or False: Ectopic pregnancy is the same as intrauterine pregnancy. - ✔✔False
True or False: Ectopic pregnancy can always be ethically treated with MTX. - ✔✔False
True or False: The medical condition resulting from an ectopic pregnancy can sometimes be
ethically treated by salpingostomy. - ✔✔True
True or False: A moral act may be neutral, good, or evil, but the intention of the acting agent is either
good or evil. - ✔✔True
True or False: Direct abortion is unreasonable and against the natural moral law. - ✔✔True
True or False: The PDE cannot be applied to acts that produce two effects: one good and the other evil.
- ✔✔False
,Ethically acceptable treatment - ✔✔A. Salpingectomy
Active itself must be - ✔✔E. Good
Intention, purpose or goal - ✔✔B. Save Mother
Object, action or what is being done - ✔✔C. Surgery
Effects compared - ✔✔C. Proportional
The ___________ prevented the use of federal funds for the production and use of human embryos for
research purposes - ✔✔Dickey Amendment
The ________ propose(s) that the early human embryo must never be used as a means for the benefit
of others. - ✔✔authors of the book Embryo: A Defense of Human Life
In 1998, the _________ again recommended that destructive research be permitted on human embryos
left over from IVF, but the funding of the production of embryos for research purposes and the use of
SCNT technology in human oocytes to generate stem cells for research be prohibited. - ✔✔National
Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC)
In 1994, the ___________ recommended that embryo research be permitted for the purposes of
developing IVF techniques and for the study of embryonic stem (ES) cells - ✔✔Human Embryo
Research Panel (HERP)
In 1978, the __________ concluded that early embryos within the first fifteen days of development
could be used legally for research to improve embryo technology (IVF). - ✔✔Ethics Advisory Board (EAB)
,The name of the frozen embryonic human person rescued in New Orleans is _______. - ✔✔Noah
Markum
The first child that was produced in 1978 using embryo technology is _________. - ✔✔Louise Brown
_________ is the scientist who advocates research on human embryos for the advancement of the
human race through genetic engineering. - ✔✔Lee Silver
The inventor of a successful mammalian cloning technique is ______. - ✔✔Ian Wilmut
The inventor of a human stem cell production technique is _______. - ✔✔James Thomson
BELL QUIZ 2-4 - ✔✔
, _______ is an alternative to the use of ES that avoids the problem of tissue rejection. - ✔✔Adult Stem
Cell Techonology
__________ (cloning technique of transfer of a nucleus from a body cell to an enucleated ovum) has
been suggested by some scientists to be applicable to the cloning of human embryos for
research purposes and for the generation of spare tissues and organs - ✔✔SCNT Technology
Claims against full moral respect being given to human embryos include the claim that human embryos
lack _________ from the first moment of conception. - ✔✔personhood
The production of embryonic stem cells and the cloning of Dolly advanced the field of __________. -
✔✔Embryo Technology
_________ is a very dubious area of therapeutic development for which an alternative has already been
found and the alternative is being used currently and on a regular basis to treat cancer. -
✔✔Embryo Stem Cell Technology
a stem cell from blastocyst - ✔✔Pluripotent stem cells have the capacity to become any type of tissue
in the mature organism, but they cannot generate a whole new organism
Embryonic stem cells are highly valued because... - ✔✔Totipotent ESC can become any cell type; in
fact, a whole human organism could be generated from such a cell.
embryology - ✔✔study of embryos
embryo ethics - ✔✔what ought to be done and what ought not to be done to human embryos
embryo science - ✔✔scientific evaluation of possible uses of embryos and applications of
discoveries made in embryology
What is IVF? - ✔✔in vitro fertilization (literally fertilization in glass)
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