Exam 9: Altering Genes and Cloning Humans

If you adhered to the Roman Catholic view of genetic intervention,you would likely:

Probably the strongest argument for using gene therapy and genetic enhancement appeals to the principle of:

A genome is:

Cells know what to do because instructions are chemically encoded into each cell's:

Gene therapy designed to repair the genes in ______ can affect future generations.

If using gene enhancement would result in greater overall happiness,then ______ would likely approve of it.

A gene is a:

The production of a genetically identical copy of an existing biological entity in an asexual process is called:

The false doctrine that genes determine all of a person's physical and behavioral traits is known as:

If gene doping were used on an athlete without his or her knowledge,that would be a violation of the:

Human reproductive cloning is:

The idea that an adult human clone would be an exact copy of its adult human donor is:

To what moral principle does this argument appeal? Enhancement would give enhanced people an unfair advantage over the unenhanced.Only the well-off could afford genetic enhancement,so the less fortunate would go without it.And those who are enhanced would acquire traits and capacities that would give them an enormous edge over the unenhanced in any competition for society's goods; this would lead to social inequality.

Some argue that ______ could lead to social inequality and injustice,especially if only the rich could afford it.

The genetic duplication of a fully developed adult animal or human is called:

A key argument for using gene therapy is based on:

Some oppose the use of genetic enhancement on the grounds that:

To what principle or right does this argument appeal? We all have a right to personal liberty,but reproductive cloning would severely constrain our freedom to act according to our own lights.A clone would grow up watching her genetic duplicate,believing that the life she wants to live has already been lived by her twin.So she thinks she has no open future,and her sense of personal freedom is destroyed.

Experimental gene therapy was used on children who had "bubble boy disease." Most of the children responded well to the treatment,but one developed a form of leukemia (an expected result).What are some of the relevant considerations (moral and nonmoral)the researchers contemplated or should have contemplated in deciding to try the unproven treatment?

Suppose an animal is bred to have a significant number of human genes,to the point where experts wondered whether the creature was a person with full moral rights.To this question Mary Anne Warren would probably say that: