1. According to Tom Bethell, as GDP per capita rises, the number of children per family:a. goes upb. stays the samec. goes downd. you cannot say, for there is no connection
2. According to Tom Bethell, fertility has declined in most wealthy countries because:a. young people have read about the horrors of overpopulationb. people in wealthy countries can afford abortionsc. people are wary of high taxes on excess childrend. wealth leads to a decline in religion, and the two together pushdown childbearing
3. According to Tom Bethell, devout religious people tend to:a. have larger familiesb. have smaller familiesc. adopt more orphansd. avoid having children at all
4. According to Tom Bethell, in the welfare states of Europe, the one-time Christian majority is being replaced by:a. devout Ultra-Orthodox Jewsb. devout Muslimsc. devout evangelical Christiansd. atheists
5. According to Jim Thomas, Eric Hoffman, and Jaydee Hanson, the risks of synthetic biology include:a. destroying ecosystemsb. threatening human healthc. unsustainably increasing the pressure of human activities on landand marine ecologiesd. all the above
6. According to Jim Thomas, Eric Hoffman, and Jaydee Hanson, pursuing the promise of synthetic biology for creating biofuels could threaten all of the following except:a. the oil industryb. efforts to conserve biological diversityc. efforts to ensure food securityd. efforts to prevent dangerous climate change
7. According to Jim Thomas, Eric Hoffman, and Jaydee Hanson, which of the following biofuels sources uses the most water and energy and has the greatest greenhouse gas emissions?a. cornb. algaec. switchgrassd. coal
8. According to Jim Thomas, Eric Hoffman, and Jaydee Hanson, Congress should:a. implement a moratorium on the release of synthetic organisms intothe environmentb. implement a moratorium on the use of synthetic organisms incommercial settingsc. require that all federally funded synthetic biology researchundergo a comprehensive environmental and societal impact reviewd. all the above
9. According to Gregory E. Kaebnick, “playing God” with synthetic biology would require:a. synthesizing a chromosome but not a whole cellb. synthesizing a whole cellc. making a pre-cell that can evolved. creating a cell from nothinge. none of the above–there is no God
10. According to Gregory E. Kaebnick, “intrinsic concerns” about the ethics of synthetic biology focus on:a. concerns about the human relationship to natureb. concerns that synthetic biology will undermines morallysignificant conceptsc. religious or metaphysical concernsd. all the above
11. According to Gregory E. Kaebnick, controlling the risk that terrorists might misuse synthetic biology means:a. controlling the people and companies who have access to thenecessary toolsb. banning synthetic biologyc. classifying all synthetic biology researchd. regulating the sale of synthetic DNA sequences that might pose athreat to biosecurity
12. According to Gregory E. Kaebnick, synthetic biology falls under the regulatory authority of several federal agencies, but regulation may need to be augmented in regard to:a. biosecurityb. environmental releasesc. privately funded labsd. all the above
