Only if animals have rights do we have duties toward them. |
False |
Globally, how many animal species are considered to be endangered? |
Almost 20,000 |
To say that an animal is sentient means that it has certain desires and interests. |
False |
About how many animals are used for experiments each year in the US? |
25 million |
Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally. |
True |
Animal experimentation appeals to ________ reasoning? |
Utilitarian |
Sentience refers to an animal's ability to |
Feel emotion |
Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to |
Women's rights |
A right is a strong legitimate claim. |
True |
From the anthropocentric perspective, the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories? |
Utilitarianism |
One prudential argument for vegetarianism is that it probably gives one a healthier diet. |
True |
The Human Genome Project was completed in: |
2000 |
One of the central issues in the debate over embryonic stem cell research is the moral status of the human blastocyst, a fertilized ball of cells smaller than a grain of sand. |
True |
How has nearly all the food we eat been "genetically modified" in the broadest sense of the term? |
It has been cross-bred for centuries. |
Stem cells are |
Pluripotent |
The Human Genome Project was designed to alter and perfect the human genetic code. |
False |
Mammals have never been cloned. |
False |
The "playing God" argument against cloning |
Is not necessarily a religious argument. |
The yuck factor argument to human cloning holds that we ought to trust our gut reactions to certain procedures as indicative of their moral nature. |
True |
Some opponents of stem cell research argue that the early undifferentiated cells of the blastocyst have the full moral status of a person, and thus cannot be used in medical research. |
True |
The argument that human personhood begins at conception and humans should not be used for scientific research is founded in |
Categorical imperative |
Therapeutic cloning refers to the process by which |
Cloning is used for medical purposes. |
Embryonic stem cells are called omnipotent, because they can develop into many different kinds of tissue. |
False |
The suggestion that using embryos from fertility clinics which would otherwise be destroyed or kept frozen is an ethical activity relies upon ________ reasoning |
Utilitarianism |
According to MacKinnon, of the 20,000 human genes, how many are unique to humans and not found in other animals? |
300 |