GE6116 – Science , Technology, and Society

According to the article between the two manners of building materials which is more promising?
Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Bottom-up approach

d. Top-bottom approach

Nanotechnology came from the Greek word "nanos" which means what?
Select one:
a. Small Person
b. Small objects
c. Small circles

d. Small animals

Which of the following is a potential of nanowires?

Select one:
a. Potential Applications in Solar cells and sensors
b. Ability to be used for delivering drugs inside our body
c. Cover the outside part of wires to make it more efficient

d. A new way of harvesting energy from the earth

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that requires federal agencies participating in
National Nanotechnology Initiative to what?
Select one:
a. Develop a plan for environmental and safety research
b. Take part in knowing the opinions of people about nanotechnology
c. Take further action in the improvement of nanotechnology research

d. Use nanotechnology to improve space travel.

Buckyball is a hollow ball made from what element

Select one:
a. Carbon
b. Helium
c. Oxygen

d. Nitrogen

Modified buckyballs can be used for

Select one:
a. Delivering free radicals inside our body
b. Trapping harmful chemicals inside the body
c. Harvesting the energy from the sun
d. Enter the brain and help regenerate the brain tissues

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. Bottom-up approach
c. Down-top approach

d. Top-bottom approach

The following are challenges in taking drugs orally except

Select one:
a. The drug has to overcome a mucous layer which is meant to keep out foreign invaders such as
pathogens
b. A drug has to be kept away from water until it is ready to be taken
c. If a drug is taken orally it has to survive extreme acidity

d. The drug has to overcome mechanical agitation in the stomach

It is a method of building nanomaterials by adding something to a material or taking something away

from it.
Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Top-bottom approach
c. Down-top approach

d. Bottom-up approach

Which of the following is one of the major challenges with nanotechnology given by the article?
Select one:
a. Laws that doesn't support nanotechnology
b. Creating large quantities of nanoscale materials is still time-consuming and expensive
c. Religious group of people that is against nanotechnologny

d. Lack of researchers for this form of technology

The advancement of nanotechnology causes which of the following in the field of business?
Select one:
a. Less accessibility for smaller companies
b. Improvement on the role of nanotechnology to the people
c. Lack of trust from the public

d. Incapability to follow the rules of the government

Which of the following is one of the reasons why nanotechnology faces challenges when it comes to
funding.
Select one:
a. Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that's why it's hard to find investors
b. The government lacks support to it because it's not part of their interests
c. It is not supported by science itself for being too costly limiting its practicality.

d. It risk on health, safety, and environment

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 water clean-up technologies
b. Nanomaterials for energy storage
c. Nanomaterials for energy conversion

d. Nanomaterials for the construction industry

Which of the following is the biggest issue that nanotechnology is facing?

Select one:
a. It is not supported by science itself for being too costly which limits its practicality.
b. The government lacks support to it because it's not part of their interests
c. Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that's why it's hard to find investors

d. It has risk on health, safety, and environment which is why it's too risky to invest on it

The following are examples of where nanomaterials can be applied to help in addressing
environmental challenges except for
Select one:
a. Water clean-up technology
b. Energy policy
c. Energy storage

d. Energy conversion

Which of the following is gives the best definition for nanotechnology?

Select one:
a. It is science, engineering, and technology conducted at a nanoscale
b. It is a field of science inclined in producing nanoscale objects
c. It is the use of small objects in the field of business and is improved by science

d. It is measured in nanometer

An action that is important for the sources of innovation and knowledge, especially for small
companies.
Select one:
a. Taking actions in cutting the access of big companies in nanotechnology
b. Formulating laws that will provide protection for those who can't afford nanotechnology
c. Collaborating with research community especially those coming from universities and other
scientists

d. Asking the government for support to fund small scale industry to afford nanotechnology

Which of the following is not true based on the given module

Select one:
a. Nanotechnology is a complex field owing to its dependency on various scientific disciplines,
research/engineering approaches and advanced instrumentation.
b. Nanotechnology allows for both the improvement of existing and the development of completely
new products
c. Nanotechnology allows the improvement of technology that can be used to create a more
damaging weapon to protect our nation

d. The fundamental characteristics of nanotechnology have led analysts to suggest that it may
constitute a basis for long-term productivity and economic growth

What does the review article "Opportunities and Challenges of Nanotechnology in the Green
Economy" analyze?
Select one:
a. It analyze the opportunities and challenges that nanotechnology have in building a greener
economy.
b. It shows the lack of support to nanotechnology because of the government's policies and low
funding on it.
c. It examines the production of new technologies for a green economy

d. It shows a discussions on the laws that nanotechnology may oppose upon its development
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According to the module intellectual property rights may become an issue as commercialization
progresses and nanotechnology matures because?
Select one:
a. There are no laws that protects products made from or by nanotechnology which makes it hard to
patent future products
b. In the age as nanotechnology matures it somehow produce many competitors out in the market
making it less possible to start up new patents.
c. People had always been very intact with their businesses that it would be hard for new businesses
with new patents to occur.

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.
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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. Government has a clear role of supporting nanotechnology according to companies

d. Business nowadays largely rely on nanotechnology and would need to come up with new form of
technology to fit in the futures of businesses

The following are forms of biases in data analysis except for:

Select one:
a. Analyzing the data in relation to the study
b. Eliminating the data which do not support your hypothesis
c. Reporting non-existing data from the experiment

d. Using inappropriate statistical tests

It urges scholars, decision-makers, diplomats, business and civic leaders to actively contribute to the
development of a life supporting society.
Select one:
a. Biopolicy
b. International University for the Bio-environment
c. The Millennium Development Goals

d. Bio-Legislation

The following is said to be required to any research organization except

Select one:
a. Openness to debate and criticism
b. Time for ideas to grow to maturity
c. Social space for personal initiative and creativity

d. Superiority over ordinary people

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. Illegal Interception
c. Data Interference

d. System interference
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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. Selection bias
b. Funding bias
c. Misclassification bias

d. Survivor bias

able effort that aims to solve the world's great problems, it has a goal to achieve with a given certain
dates.
Select one:
a. Bio-education
b. World Referendum
c. Biopolicy

d. The Millennium Development Goals

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. Recording
c. Referencing

d. Transcribing

Which of the following is not one of the reason for having a conflict of interest in doing a research?
Select one:
a. The scientist has a goal of helping the community
b. An editor who has a financial or personal interest in doing the research
c. The reviewer is inappropriately influenced by his or her action.

d. The researcher has a belief that could affect his or her objectivity

The following are the primary modes of internet regulations except for:
Select one:
a. Laws
b. Bandwidth
c. Architecture

d. Markets

Pollution loads, genetically modified organism, water and soils, biotechnology, and environmental
policy are all part of which of the following courses?
Select one:
a. Bio-tourism
b. Food and Agriculture
c. Waste management

d. Common Agricultural Policy

It entails the conception of basic ideas and it is a product of laboratory scientist

Select one:
a. Technology
b. Innovation
c. Invention

d. Interpolation

It is the application of ideas to something directly useful to mankind.

Select one:
a. Interpolation
b. Technology
c. Invention

d. Innovation

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 Access
b. Illegal Interception
c. System interference

d. Data Interference

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. Net worth
b. Direct relationship
c. Indirect relationship

d. Company incentives

What is google effect?

Select one:
a. It is where people uses another human being as a memory bank
b. It is the ability of a person to incorporate google as part of its memory
c. It is the manner of changing how people think when they start to largely rely on the internet for
some facts

d. It is the lack of ability to remember important things

Which of the following would be an example of selection bias?
Select one:
a. Mistaken one thing from another
b. Conducting a survey about quality of life where you were only to gather data from poor
communities
c. Sharing the data with other researcher even though it was not needed

d. Not considering the possibility of limited people to participate

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. Common Agricultural Policy
b. Waste management
c. Food and Agriculture

d. Bio-tourism

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. Survivor bias
c. Selection bias

d. Funding bias

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. Biopolicy
b. Bio-ethics
c. Bio-education

d. Bio-economics

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

Which of the following statement would best define what the line "Technology is partially non-rival in
nature" means?
Select one:
a. People are into sharing each other's technologies
b. Technology can be used by the person without preventing the other person from using it either
c. It means that technology should not cause any form of war in every country

d. The one who produces technology is the only one who competes with each other and not the
people relying on it

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. Misclassification bias
b. Volunteer bias
c. Survivor bias

d. Selection bias

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. Intrapersonal memory banking
b. Transactive Memory System
c. Google Effect

d. Memory Group Distribution

Which of the following statements define what Bayh-Dole Act?

Select one:
a. It is the act that regulates the use of research paper by different scientists
b. It is a law that limits private funding in different research
c. It is an act which allows scientist to protect their research from being copied
d. The act granted universities and their professor's automatic rights to own and commercialize
federally funded research

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. Young scientist should appreciate the global dimension of science
b. Young scientist should realize that their education and research are being subsidized by the
society
c. Science is a social institution, with a mission and baggage like all other social institutions created
by human beings

d. Science requires greater sacrifice coming from the life of the normal people

It is concerned with the relevance of biology and the life sciences for the public policy.
Select one:
a. Bio-economics
b. Biopolicy
c. Bio-education

d. World Referendum

Which of the following statement would best describe what the article "Playing god" is about?
Select one:
a. It was about the book of Jane Maienschein entitled "Whose View of Life"
b. It was a view of how many people are in favor of cloning
c. The article talks about a wider view of opinions about ethics in science

d. A basic analysis of opinions coming from the society about the works of scientist

The following are benefits of voice recording interviews except:

Select one:
a. Less distraction from writing and better flow of interview
b. The researcher can concentrate, listen, and respond better
c. It will take less time to finish the research.

d. The researcher has a chance of going back to the material

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. Net worth
b. Indirect relationship
c. Direct relationship

d. Company incentives

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. The Millennium Development Goals
c. Bio-Legislation

d. International University for the Bio-environment

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Sox2 and Oct4 are transcription factors which

Select one:
a. Causes death in adult stem cells it was exposed to
b. Create a multipotent stem cell inside the bones
c. Change embryonic stem cells into new developing cells

d. Reprogram the adult nucleus back into its embryonic state

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. Induced pluripotent Stem Cells
b. Embryonic stem cell
c. Multipotent stem cells

d. Totipotent stem cell

Multipotent stem cells harvested from bone marrow have been used since 1960's to treat the
following except what?
Select one:
a. Leukemia
b. Myeloma
c. Gymnostoma
d. Lymphoma

It is a type of stem cell that can become any cell in the adult body.
Select one:
a. Totipotent Stem Cells
b. Multipotent Stem cells
c. Unipotent Stem cells

d. Pluripotent stem cells

What are teratomas?

Select one:
a. Ability of stem cells to cause cancer
b. The lack of regenerative properties of cells
c. Solid tumors made up of mixture of all germ layer

d. Therapeutic use of stem cell

It is a self-organized system that performs complex life processes and is considered as the smallest
unit of life
Select one:
a. Nucleus
b. Cell
c. Mitochondria

d. Water

According to article which of the following would be the best definition for stem cell?
Select one:
a. Capable of copying other cell and reproduce in a faster rate
b. Self-renewing and can differentiate to other types of cell
c. Ability to reorganize itself into a new form of cell

d. Can reproduce and cure disease

A type of stem cell that is restricted to becoming a more limited population of cells.
Select one:
a. Unipotent Stem cells
b. Multipotent Stem cells
c. Pluripotent stem cells

d. Totipotent Stem Cells

Cell that can only become one specialized cell type such as skin stem cells or muscle stem cells.
Select one:
a. Pluripotent stem cells
b. Totipotent Stem Cells
c. Multipotent Stem cells

d. Unipotent Stem cells

According to the module cellular activities are manifestations of which of the following.
Select one:
a. Cellular acquisition of nutrients
b. Having organelles capable for cellular movements
c. Existence of pathogenic organism in one's system

d. Intra and intermolecular transports and motions of cellular molecules

The following, according to the module, are significant barriers to firms trying to enter
nanotechnology market except for
Select one:
a. Commercialization costs for nanotechnologies
b. Development and manufacturing cost of equipment
c. Policies which blocks the improvement of science and technology

d. Funds for research and development

A cell consist a large number of functional
Select one:
a. Macromolecules
b. Nucleus
c. Micromolecules

d. Complex organisms
Nanotechnology has enabled the following except
Select one:
a. Advancement of existing technologies
b. Production of new unique materials
c. Destruction of hunger in Africa
d. Inventions of molecular scaled devices

A basic commercialization strategies for nanotechnology which is focused on developing

technologies and thus new markets.
Select one:
a. Product Innovation
b. Process Innovation
c. Product Invention

d. Process Invention

Which of the following would best define/describe what process innovation is?
Select one:
a. An application of science and technology where it is focused on developing new technologies and
thus new markets
b. It is the use of technology to be able to maintain existing product in the market
c. It is 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

Which of the following is the third fate of a stem cell?
Select one:
a. Remain Quiescent without dividing or differentiating
b. Producing two daughter cells increasing the stem cell pool
c. Dividing into two daughter cell where one is the same as the parent stem cell and the other is
differentiated

d. Producing two new daughter cell where both are different and highly differentiated from the parent
stem cell

It is a combination of science, engineering, and technology conducted at a nanoscale.

Select one:
a. Information Technology
b. Industrial Science
c. Nanotechnology

d. Biotechnology

The following are four social Objectives that is essential for nanotechnology stake holders to strive to
achieve except for
Select one:
a. Developing technologies that is only essential for the market
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. Alerting societies to technological risks and failures

The following requires a review and regulation of assessment except for

Select one:
a. If nanoparticle-related intoxication is reported
b. If inadequate control procedures are reported
c. If there are significant changes in project products, work, material, process or control procedure

d. If the head of the company will visit the site of production

The following are challenges in orally taken drugs except for:

Select one:
a. It should be capable of surviving peristaltic movement of the esophagus
b. It needs have the ability to pass through the mucous layer of the intestine
c. It needs to survive extreme acidity and digestive enzyme

d. It needs to survive mechanical agitation in the stomach

There are two approaches in building nanomaterials. Which of the following is where you start with a
material and start taking off some parts of it or adding something into it.
Select one:
a. Bottom-up Approach
b. Up-Bottom Approach
c. Top-down Approach

d. Down-top Approach

Which of the following is the fourth fate of a stem cell?

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 new daughter cell where both are different and highly differentiated from the parent
stem cell
c. Producing two daughter cells increasing the stem cell pool
d. Remain Quiescent without dividing or differentiating

What is type 1 Diabetes?

Select one:
a. It is a type of diabetes where the pancreas cannot produce insulin
b. It is a type of diabetes acquired from diet
c. It is a type of diabetes where the person has taken up too much amount of sugar

d. It is a type of diabetes where the body's cells do not respond to the presence of insulin
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What is type II diabetes?

Select one:
a. It is a type of diabetes where the pancreas cannot produce insulin
b. It is a type of diabetes inherited from the family
c. It is a type of diabetes where the liver cells is being destroyed by the immune system

d. It is a type of diabetes where the body's cell is not capable of responding to insulin.
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National Nanotechnology Institute defines nanotechnology as

Select one:
a. The improvement and production of new products in a scale of about 1 to 100 nanometers
b. The use of technology to produce very small objects
c. The process of developing existing materials into smaller ones

d. The understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100
nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications

It has served as the catalyst for organizing and understanding vast knowledge from a system point
of view.
Select one:
a. Technology and science
b. Informatics
c. Nanotechnology
 d. Engineering

The national Institute of Health is planning to

Select one:
a. Use stem cell to cure cancer
b. Use cells towards therapeutic use
c. Use nanotechnology to administer drugs to patient

d. Use technology to know the cause of degenerative diseases

A basic commercialization strategies for nanotechnology which is in response to anticipated or

actual demand for specific product characteristics.
Select one:
a. Process Innovation
b. Product Invention
c. Product Innovation

d. Process Invention

The following are major factors limiting the bioavailability of nasally administered insulin except:
Select one:
a. Incapability of the body to absorb insulin in inhaling it
b. A direct form of delivering insulin to the blood stream
c. Poor permeability across the mucosal membrane

d. Rapid mucociliary clearance mechanism that removes the non-adhesive formulations from
absorption site

Why is orally taking insulin useless without applying nanotechnology?

Select one:
a. Because having insulin taken orally would increase the acidity of the stomach therefore having a
side effect of stomach ache
b. Because having insulin pass by the esophagus would cause damages to the tissues in it
c. Because insulin would be considered foreign by the body that's why its directly injected in the
blood stream

d. Because gastric juices can destroy insulin making it useless for oral intake of insulin
.
It is a metabolic disorder which results in high levels of blood glucose.
Select one:
a. Type 1 diabetes
b. Diabetes mellitus
c. Type 2 diabetes

d. Nanomedicine

The following are innovations with the use of nanotechnology in treating diabetes except:
Select one:
a. Polymeric nanoparticles
b. Insoluble glycerols
c. Microphysiometer

d. Implantable sensors

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. Silicon box

d. Casein coating

A type of diabetes where the body's cells do not respond to the presence of insulin.
Select one:
a. Type 2 diabetes
b. Nanomedicine
c. Type 1 diabetes

d. Diabetes mellitus

A small form of injection where the patient's body is injected with insulin in a constant rate to balance
the amount of sugar in his or her blood, it is also capable of small drug doses over a long period of
time
Select one:
a. Artificial pancreas
b. Microsphere
c. Polymeric nanoparticles

d. Nanopump

Are biodegradable polymers, with the polymer-insulin matrix enclosed by the nanoporous membrane
containing grafted glucose oxidase?
Select one:
a. Microphysiometer
b. Implantable sensors
c. Polymeric nanoparticles

d. Insoluble glycerols

In orally taken insulin what coating is used to be able to protect the insulin from gastric juices
Select one:
a. Mucosal membrane
b. Casein coating
c. Nucleic acid

d. Glucose oxidase

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

Which of the following if the second step in the 10-step model for nanotechnology risk management?
Select one:
a. Provide information about the nanomaterials
b. Identifying all nanoparticles
c. Involvement of Experts in the process of developing nanotechnology

d. Division of the work for every staff or the Work Breakdown Structure

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 Development
c. The Challenge of Technological Foresight

d. The Challenge of Formulating Public Policy

The following are challenges in dealing with the development, impact, and effects of nanotechnology
to the society except for
Select one:
a. Technological Development and Foresight
b. Salary Equality
c. Credibility and Understanding

d. Formulating Policy

There are challenges that Eric Drexler identified in dealing with the improvements of
nanotechnology, which of the following is not one of them?
Select one:
a. The Challenge of Technological Foresight
b. The Challenge of Technological Development
c. The Challenge of Formulating Public Policy

d. The Challenge of Technological Degradation

In a small workplace who should be the one to assess the work and the environment in the
workplace?
Select one:
a. Project Manager
b. Assistant Manager
c. Managing Director

d. Assessment team

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. Identifying all nanoparticles
b. Division of the work for every staff or the Work Breakdown Structure
c. Provide information about the nanomaterials
d. Involvement of Experts in the process of developing nanotechnology

The following are the four social objectives that nanotechnology stakeholders should strive to
achieve except.
Select one:
a. Guiding local/global societies to appropriate uses of technology
b. Developing a strong understanding of local and global forces and issues that affect people and
societies
c. Limit the access of the community to nanotechnology

d. Alerting societies to technological risks and failures

As we design systems on a nanoscale we develop which of the following

Select one:
a. Create new cells
b. Improve mental health
c. Modify existing objects

d. Develop new materials or redesign it

If there is an inadequate control procedure reported it is required to:

Select one:
a. Applying medical assistance to the one affected
b. Develop new materials and ignore the case
c. Innovation of processes involved

d. Review and regulation of the assessment

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. Complementary employee training
b. More precise monitoring procedures
c. Having First aid and Emergency facility

d. Change the form of technology being harnessed

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

It is the process of conforming to a norm which is about what a group considers appropriate, moral,
or necessary.
Select one:
a. Informational social influence
b. Normative group pressure
c. Social conformity

d. Social expectations

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 an expectation about appropriate behavior occurs in a group context.

Select one:
a. Social norms
b. Injunctive norms
c. Social influence

d. Descriptive norms

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. Descriptive norms
c. Social norms

d. Injunctive norms
It is a type of norm that is characterized by what most people will approve or disapprove.
Select one:
a. Adaptive norms
b. Group norms
c. Injunctive norms

d. Descriptive norms

It is a type of norm where the behavior reflects on what people actually do

Select one:
a. Group norms
b. Injunctive norms
c. Descriptive norms

d. Moral norms
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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 group pressure happened in the given situation
c. Normative influence is generally not detected compared to informational influences

d. Injunctive norms is highly influential to a person

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. Prejudice
b. Regulatory focus
c. Energy Use

d. Normative conflict

It is the process of conforming to descriptive norms which usually results to actions which genuine
and unrestrained.
Select one:
a. Informational social influence
b. Normative group pressure
c. Social expectations

d. Social conformity

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. The existence of normative conflict

d. Norm realignment

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. Communism
b. Organized Skepticism
c. Disinterestedness

d. Universalism

d. Universalism

It is the set of institutional imperatives where it is variously interrelated with the other elements of the
scientific ethos.
Select one:
a. Organized Skepticism
b. Universalism
c. Disinterestedness

d. Communism

Science is commonly used to denote the following except:

Select one:
a. A way of developing new skills to improve the world around us
b. A set of characteristic method by means of which knowledge is certified.
c. A set of cultural values and more governing the activities termed scientific

d. A stock of accumulated knowledge stemming from the application of these methods

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. Democratization
c. Particularism

d. Ethnocentrism

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. Universalism
b. Disinterestedness
c. Communism

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 capitalistic economy
b. Scientific research
c. Scientist doing the research

d. A democratic point of view

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. Subjected to shifting fortunes
c. The best way to survive social related problem
d. Can survive change and maintain itself for era

The norms under the ethos of science are legitimatized in terms of

Select one:
a. Questions and Inquiry
b. Scientific Spirit
c. Imperatives

d. Institutional Values

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. Disinterestedness
b. Communism
c. Universalism

d. Organized Skepticism

The norms in the ethos of science are expressed in the form of prescriptions, proscriptions,
preferences, and which of the following?
Select one:
a. Permissions
b. Admissions
c. Percussions

d. Partitions

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
In building nanotechnology which of the following approach is where you start with individual
molecules and create a product from there.
Select one:
a. Bottom-up approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Top-bottom approach

d. Top-down approach

It is a form of stem cell where adult cells were taken back into a pluripotent state by molecular
manipulation.
Select one:
a. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
b. Multipotent Stem Cells
c. Unipotent Stem Cells

d. Pluripotent Stem Cells

Which of the following would best describe what product innovation is?

a. An application of science and technology where it is focused on developing new technologies

and thus new markets
b. It is where nanotechnology is mostly used, often in response to anticipated or actual demand for
specific product characteristics
c. It is a result of product invention driven by the needs of the many

d. It is the use of technology to be able to maintain existing product in the market

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Which of the following statement would best define what product innovation is?
Select one:
a. It is changing the way a product is being used
b. It is where the developer focuses on developing new technologies and modifying the process of
producing a certain product
c. It is where the technologies created follows a certain trend in the development of technologies

d. It is the enhancement of a product in response to anticipated or actual demand

A sheet of pure, carbon graphite rolled into cylinders usually a few nanometers in diameter and
between 1 and 100 micrometers.
Select one:
a. Nanotube
b. Nanodrug delivery
c. Nanosensors

d. Buckyball

Which of the following is the second fate of a stem cell?

Select one:
a. Producing two daughter cells increasing the stem cell pool
b. Remain Quiescent without dividing or differentiating
c. Producing two new daughter cell where both are different and highly differentiated from the parent
stem cell

d. Dividing into two daughter cell where one is the same as the parent stem cell and the other is
differentiated

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. It means that a person with the right knowledge should always be involved
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. The knowledge of only one person would never be enough to develop nanotechnology.

Stem cells which has restriction on becoming a more limited population of cells
Select one:
a. Unipotent Stem Cells
b. Multipotent Stem Cells
c. Pluripotent Stem Cells

d. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell

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. Remain Quiescent without dividing or differentiating
c. Producing two daughter cells increasing the stem cell pool

d. Producing two new daughter cell where both are different and highly differentiated from the parent
stem cell
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. Stem Cell
b. Somatic Cells
c. Red Blood Cells

d. Progenitor Cells

They are molecules that have an uneven number of electrons making them unstable and highly
reactive.
Select one:
a. Free radicals
b. Antioxidants
c. Hydrochloric acid

d. Acidic substances

Which of the following is the right etymology the term nano in nanotechnology?
Select one:
a. Nanos - Greek word for small person
b. Nano - Latin term for invisible or cannot be seen
c. Nano - Latin word for ants or small insects

d. Nanos - Greek word for molecules

The process of copying the DNA sequence of a gene into messenger RNA is referred to as
Select one:
a. Activation
b. Transcription
c. Deletion

d. Translation
Alteration in the DNA coding sequence are referred to as
Select one:
a. Transcription
b. Translation
c. Deletion

d. Mutations

It is the basic unit of genetic function

Select one:
a. Genes
b. Nucleotides
c. Deoxyribonucleic Acid

d. Ribonucleic Acid

The mRNA is exported to the cytoplasm for

Select one:
a. Translation
b. Deletion
c. Mutations

d. Transcription

A recessive trait is expressed only if

Select one:
a. The person was able to get both recessive and dominant traits
b. The person was able to inherit a dominant trait
c. The person gets to inherit both recessive trait

d. The person was able to have mutations within the segment of its DNA

It is defined as differences in the degree or quality of expression of a specific phenotype

Select one:
a. Mitochondrial inheritance
b. Variable expressivity
c. Imprinting
d. Anticipation

It refers to the differential expression of maternal and paternal alleles for a particular gene.
Select one:
a. Imprinting
b. Variable expressivity
c. Anticipation

d. Mitochondrial inheritance

It is expressed regardless if it is in either the homozygous or heterozygous state

Select one:
a. Dominant traits
b. Recessive Traits
c. X-linked Traits

d. Inherited Traits

The following are all forms of mutation that can be found in a DNA except for
Select one:
a. Rearrangements
b. Insertion
c. Deletion

d. Mismanagement

The resulting mRNA is an exact copy of the DNA sequence, except

Select one:
a. Uridine take the place of thymine
b. RNA is not capable of being translated
c. DNA has less base pairs

d. RNA is triple helix in structure

Which of the following is required to ensure proper interpretation of genomic variants?

Select one:
a. A large amount of money
b. Thorough counseling and evaluation
c. Three months of analysis

d. A complete health information slip

The following are benefits of digitizing medical files except:

Select one:
a. It augment the attainment of new knowledge through the automated and systematic analysis of
unstructured data
b. It supports greater accuracy in records
c. It helps to blend medical practices with personalized clinical initiative

d. It allows people to share their medical records with each other

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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. Political parties to use data against opposing parties
b. Protect the records from the patient itself
c. Cyber-attacks which may harm the confidentiality of health records

d. Medical doctors to access the data

Which is the biggest and perhaps most visible risk of adopting digitized health records?
Select one:
a. Data reliability
b. Data availability
c. Data security

d. Information Policies

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. Background check of the patient
b. Process of data collection
c. Proper interpretation of genomic variant
d. Requirements for genome analysis

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. A new form of disease
b. A hybrid phenotype
c. Extremely painful symptoms

d. Unrecognizable Disease

The following are given applications of genomic sequencing except.

Select one:
a. Evaluating rare disorders
b. Identifying therapeutic targets in neoplasms
c. Screening for prenatal aneuploidy

d. Statistically knowing a person's day of death

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. Mutation analysis
b. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
c. Genetic Inheritance

d. Phenotype analysis

The digitization of medical files is known as

Select one:
a. Electronic Health Records
b. Health Information System
c. Digital Health Records

d. Electronically Generated Health Records

Targeted multiplex genotyping screens which of the following

Select one:
a. Multiple character that a person exhibits
b. Specific segment in the DNA that is essential for expression of facial features
c. Phenotypes that a person has

d. Mutations present in a person's genes

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. Vectors
b. DNA Polymerase
c. Viral DNA

d. Animal Model

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. Gene mapping
b. Transgene diagnostic
c. Polymerase Chain Reaction

d. Gene Pharming

It has been developed for transfection of insects.

Select one:
a. Transgenic animals
b. Viral DNA
c. Bacculovirus vectors

d. E. coli

The animal which are genetically engineered is called as

Select one:
a. Enhanced Animals
b. Transgenic Animals
c. Cloned Animals

d. Physiologically Modified Organism

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. Pronuclear Injection
b. Electroporation
c. Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer

d. Viral Technique

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. Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
c. Electroporation

d. Viral Technique

The following are limitations of transgenic technology except.

Select one:
a. Unregulated gene expression resulting in improper expression of gene products
b. Possibility of side effects in transgenic animals like arthritis, dermatitis and cancer
c. Insertional mutations resulting in alteration of important biological processes

d. Increased number of Parasitic infections found in humans

The two basic strategies for producing transgenic animals are

Select one:
a. Modification of physiology and improvements of anatomical structure
b. Activation of good genes and deletion of mutation
c. Gain of function and loss of function

d. Increased immunity and increased adaptability

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. Use of animals in biotechnological research causes great suffering to the animals.
b. It is felt that by using animals for the production of pharmaceutical proteins we reduce them to
mere factories.
c. It cost more money compared to other forms of research

d. Some people feel that animals should be regarded as equal to humans in that they have the same
basic rights as human beings

Which of the following is NOT true about milk production and lactation in transgenic animals
Select one:
a. Transgenic animals could be made to secrete nutraceuticals in milk that may have an impact over
the growth of offspring.
b. Transgenic animals is capable of overproduction of growth hormone making it five times heavier
than it should be.
c. Transgenic animals could also be made to secrete antibodies in their milk

d. Transgenic animals also could be developed to produce infant milk that has increased levels of
human lactoferin

It is defined as any use of biological organism or processes in industrial, agricultural and

environmental engineering.

Select one:
a. Zymotechnology
b. Biocolonialism
c. Bioengineering

d. Biotechnology

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. Genetic Engineering
b. Agricultural biotechnology
c. Genomic Sequencing

d. Industrial Biotechnology

Which of the following did Karl Ereky contributed in the field of biotechnology?
Select one:
a. He was the one who coined the term biotechnology
b. He divided the history of technology into three stages
c. He produced 110 tons of single-cell protein bacteria

d. He claimed that we could regard life as a series of technical problem

Which of the following did Patrick Geddes did?

Select one:
a. He divided the history of technology into three stages
b. He produced 110 tons of single-cell protein bacteria
c. He was the one who coined the term biotechnology

d. He claimed that we could regard life as a series of technical problem

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The golden rice which is a research sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation aims to

Select one:
a. Make rice more capable of producing more grains
b. Developing a rice that is more pest resistant
c. Make rice more resistant to typhoons

d. Improve nutrition by enhancing rice to contain some of vitamins

It is the commandeering of knowledge and biological resources from an indigenous people without
compensation.
Select one:
a. Bioengineering
b. Biotechnology
c. Biocolonialism

d. Zymotechnology

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. Genetic Engineering
b. Genomic Sequencing
c. Biotechnology
d. Zymotechnology

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 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. Industrial Biotechnology
b. Genomic Sequencing
c. Genetic Engineering

d. Zymotechnology

Which of the following would best describe the effort of Imitation rhizobia production?
Select one:
a. Developing bacterial fertilizers that could convert nitrogen to ammonia
b. Producing single-cell protein bacteria
c. Having bacteria that will help in the fermentation process of sugar to produce bioethanol

d. Developing drugs that would protect humans from severe bacterial infection

It is the lessening of pain that an animal subject should undergo to.

Select one:
a. Resurrection
b. Refinement
c. Replacement

d. Reduction

Which of the following is the definition of science according to the module?

Select one:
a. The manner of improving technologies and knowledge to further understand the world around us.
b. An accumulated and organized body of knowledge that is intended to solve real-world problems.
c. A set of laws and theories that support our knowledge of the world around us

d. The perception of the people around us which affects culture and behavior of everyone in the
same community.

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

d. Memory Group Distribution

Which of the following is the first stage of obtaining scientific knowledge?

Select one:
a. Using research instruments to measure and interpret data collected from investigation
b. Making generalizations about an observed phenomenon
c. Describing the natural or physical world or event through expert observation

d. Examining patterns of facts derived from observations

This refers to the action of lowering the number of animals involved in the experimentation:
Select one:
a. Reduction
b. Resurrection
c. Refinement

d. Replacement

It is the code which has statements that upheld the protection of human subjects, the analysis of the
risk as contrasted to the benefit of the experiments, and the performance of experiments only by
scientist.
Select one:
a. The Laboratory Welfare Act
b. International Regulation
c. Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Science

d. Declaration of Helsinki

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?
Select one:
a. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
b. Biologist
c. Nurse

d. Medical technologist

The following are the three generally accepted principles of the institutional Review Board on the
Use of Human Subject except:
Select one:
a. Aspects of Life Science
b. Respect for the Person
c. Justice

d. Beneficence

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 capable of producing acetate from carbon dioxide in an anaerobic environment.
c. Organism who tends to consume acetate to be able to produce glucose

d. It is an organism highly capable of processing water to be able to produce acetone

What is a metal-organic framework?

Select one:
a. It is a form of technology used for harvesting water out of thin air
b. It is a process that slowly degrades metal into a more soluble organic substances
c. It is a framework of converting metallic elements into organic substances

d. It is a theory that states that all organic substances is made up of metals

It is an act which has a goal on protecting the researchers from acts of violence perpetrated by
groups of anti-animal research militants
Select one:
a. Animal Subject Welfare Act
b. Anti-black Market Act
c. Test Subject Protection Act

d. Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act