Genetic Engineering
disease caused by abnormality in genome
What is a genetic disease?
What is artificial insemination by husband?
Provides a place for care of terminally ill patients
What is one function of Hospice?
Law that prevents discrimination based on genetic information relative to insurance and employment
What is GINA?
all hereditary material possessed by organism
What is genome?
type of insurance that covers medical expenses, lost wages, damages without regard to fault
What is personal injury insurance?
Any product of conception
What is conceptus?
Allows you to donate any body part
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act?
What is the General Assembly?
single cells that can regenerate and turn into specialized cells
What are stem cells?
Any activity, process, policy to reduce liability/exposure
What is risk management?
cell production by union of sperm and egg (gametes)
What is a zygote?
an advanced directive that states wishes regarding whether or not to be kept alive artificially
What is a living will?
for the CMA, it depends on task, education, credentialing, experience and responsibility given by provider
What is the standard of care for the CMA?
a carrier
What is a vector?
An alternative to litigation that uses alternative dispute methods
What is arbitration-mediation?
What is a blastocyst?
Federal law that uses irreversible cessation of all brain function as one criterion of death
What is the Uniform Determination of Death Act?
"in vitro"
What is fertilization in glass?
a person with an abnormal gene for a disorder but lacking symptoms
What is HIPAA?
the male germ cell
What is spermatozoon?
"good death"
What is euthanasia?
The five stages of grief
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?