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37. Scientists alter a microbe to make it resistant to an antibiotic by using a plasmid. The
plasmid contains genes with favorable new traits along with a gene for antibiotic
resistance. Afterward, the scientists can use the antibiotic to kill all microbes except
the genetically modified microbe for an experiment.
Which is an ethical concern of adding an antibiotic-resistance gene into the microbe?
A If the microbe replicates, the antibiotic-resistance will transfer to the offspring.
B
If the microbe is not properly stored, the antibiotic-resistance could be lost, costing money
and wasting time.
If the microbe is not properly contained, the antibiotic-resistance could be transferred to
disease-causing microbes, reducing the effectiveness of the antibiotic in the future.
D
If the microbe is made too frequently, the antibiotic-resistance gene could lead to false claims
about the microbe.
Answer
C. If the microbe is not properly contained, the antibiotic-resistance could be transferred to disease-causing microbes, reducing the effectiveness of the antibiotic in the future.
The ethical concern of adding an antibiotic-resistance gene into the microbe is that if the microbe is not properly contained, the antibiotic-resistance...
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"The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject - my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution..
Disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you ready to incur its guilt? If you are, on the head of the instigators of the act be the dreadful consequences... Fellow-
citizens of the United States! ... I rely with equal confidence on your undivided support in my determination to execute the laws - to preserve the Union by all
constitutional means."
-Andrew Jackson speaking to Congress about the Nullification Crisis
During the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina threatened to leave the Union because
it opposed the law chartering the Bank of the United States.
• it disagreed with the 'necessary and proper' clause of the Constitution.
it would not support the Tariff of 1832.
•the US government tried to abolish slavery in South Carolina.
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Answer
Andrew Jackson urged Congress to preserve the Union by all constitutional means and warned that disunion by armed force was treason.
Andrew Jackson, in his address to Congress during the Nullification Crisis, urged Congress to preserve the Union by all constitutional means and warned that disunion by...