A Researcher Wants to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,a Set of Deficits

question 40

Multiple Choice

A researcher wants to study fetal alcohol syndrome,a set of deficits in the offspring caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy,by randomly assigning pregnant mice to alcohol and no alcohol groups.Which of the following is the best reason for using mice instead of people for this study? 

• A)Mice consume larger amounts of alcohol relative to their body weight than humans do. 
• B) You don't need to have the approval of an ethics committee in order to study mice.​ 
• C) Although ethical standards for animal research still apply, some research considered completely unethical for humans can be conducted with animals.​ 
• D) Mice are so much like people there's no reason to study people.​

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