Forensics and Biotechnology
Form of DNA analysis which uses restriction enzymes differentiate the number and type of restriction sites in different DNA samples
What is restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis?
A type of bioremediation which relies on plants
What is phytoremediation?
A set of principles, often referred to as moral values, which govern and guide our actions, especially our actions towards other individuals
What is ethics?
Funds which are contributed by individuals, financial institutions and other companies
What are venture capital funds?
A law prohibits potential employers and health insurance agencies from discriminating amongst individuals based on their genetics
What is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)?
A substance which triggers an animal to produce antibodies
What is an antigen?
Device that contains a fixed bed of media which serves as a place for the growth of biofilms which will contain the microorganisms that are responsible for removing pollutants
What is a biotrickling filter?
A suspension in activity; in this context it implies that all research in a particular field is halted until such research can be properly evaluated
What is a moratorium?
Results from expression of an individual’s or group of individual’s ideas and is defined as creations of the mind
What is intellectual property?
Ethical approach focuses on decision making based on compliance with a rule or set of rules
What is deontological ethics or duty ethics?
A technique where antibodies are used to precipitate blood cells or other cells from a serological sample which contain the antigen complimentary to that antibody
What is agglutination?
A branch of environmental science which typically focuses on the social, political and ethical factors that influence the relationship that we humans have with the environment
What is environmental studies?
A form of ethics which focuses on the consequences or outcomes of an action with the driving force behind decisions being trying to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number
What is the utilitarian approach?
Biotechnology business model which focuses on diseases that have unmet needs in the current scope of medical treatments that are available
What is a disease focused model?
Genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer
What are the BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes?
Single nucleotide changes that vary from person to person
What are single nucleotide polymorphisms?
The P in the IPAT equation stands for this
What is population?
A compound is one that causes birth defects
What is teratogenic?
Departments which are required to monitor equipment, facilities, and personnel as well as to test product samples
What are Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) departments?
Stem cells derived from embryos
What are embryonic stem cells?
Systems that create a slightly sloped landscape for water to pass through
What are bioswales?
An ethical approach which emphasizes that there are certain absolutes which are independent of an individual’s hopes, fears or feelings and that these rules cannot be broken
What is objectivism?
A field focused on the storage and analysis of large amounts of data generated through biological research
What is bioinformatics?
A type of study where patients are randomly selected to participate in the experimental group and control/placebo group where neither the patient nor the individual administering the patient are informed of which group they have been placed in
What is a randomized, double-blind study?