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Bioethics and Biosafety
Quick questions on Ethical issues in biotechnology: O-Level Bioethics and Biosafety
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What is the benefits to weigh against them?Show answer
Against these concerns sit real benefits: medicines such as insulin, vaccines, crops that resist pests or carry extra nutrients, cleaner industrial processes, and tools to diagnose and treat disease. Reducing suffering and improving food supply are themselves moral goods.
What is weighing it up?Show answer
Because ethics involves values, not just facts, people weigh the same evidence differently, and the consequences are often uncertain. A balanced view usually argues that a use of biotechnology is more acceptable when it is safe, well regulated, consented to, and its benefits are shared fairly, and less acceptable when risks are high, consent is absent, or benefits are unfairly distributed.
What is not reaching a conclusion?Show answer
After weighing both sides, give a reasoned judgement rather than leaving it open.
What is q1?Show answer
State two ethical concerns raised by biotechnology. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Give one benefit of biotechnology that can be weighed against ethical concerns. [1 mark]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain why two reasonable people can disagree about an ethical question in biotechnology. [2 marks]
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