Advances in Technology Raise Concerns About Which of the Following

question 4

Multiple Choice

Advances in technology raise concerns about which of the following?

• A)the practical effects of having a robot in every home
• B)the ethics of experimentation on human embryos
• C)the ethics of using communications technology
• D)the elimination of the homemaker's role

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Definitions:

Uniformitarianism

The geological principle suggesting that the same processes and natural laws that operate in the universe now have always operated in the past.

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Catastrophism

The theory that the Earth has been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope, contrasting with uniformitarianism which emphasizes gradual changes.

Mitosis

A kind of cell division that produces new cells having exactly the same number of chromosome pairs, and hence copies of genes, as the parent cell.