General ESL Vocabulary MCQ Test With Answers – Advanced Level Exercise 11

The .............. "biological revolution" happens to have come along at precisely the same moment we are all caught up in what has been called a "crisis in values".

What values should guide the biologist's explorations into the nature of human life or the physician's treatment of the .............. ill?

The .............. over recombining genes to produce new life forms is only one of the knotty ethical, philosophical and even religious questions raised by the current "biological revolution".

Other scientists are quick to point out that we need not only better maps of genes but a better understanding of the ______ between genes as well.

It has been said that we live in a period of the greatest change ever .............. by humankind -- a change that is powered by the engine of science and technology.

There is a rich and attractive opportunity for the world's scientific and technological community to institutionalize and perfect a(n) .............. of interlinked centres addressing their problems.

Our times call for a(n) .............. rethinking of the relationship of science and technology with society.

During the 1960's, some developing countries became .............. concerned about negative impacts of technology transfer involving  multinational corporations.

The new international economic order should, in the developing countries, mean measures to help the poor become more productive and to .............. minimum human needs for food and nutrition, health care (including family planning services), education, skills, and productive jobs.

We need new international efforts to help all countries move from almost total reliance on shrinking sources of nonrenewable energy to the greatest .............. reliance on renewable sources.

As nonrenewable sources, specifically petroleum and natural gas, become scarcer and more expensive, new attention is being focused on green plants as a(n) .............. energy supply.

We must come up with a new .............. to the old debate about nature versus nurture, or genetic make-up versus environmental influences.

One scheme for genetic engineering which has attracted wide interest is the cure of genetic .............. in man.

Mankind as we know it today probably could not have evolved or ______ without tools.

It is not surprising, therefore, that some anthropologists define the human .............. on the basis of tool-using and tool-making, or to be more exact, tool-dependency.

Only over the past few decades have we come to understand how surprisingly much of what we do may be ______ by the kind of creatures we are and especially by the information stored in our genes.

Scientists have become increasingly .............. with the fact that genes not only govern physical characteristics but they also play a large role in behaviour.

Most biologists now recognize that it is virtually impossible to separate the .............. genetic from the .............. environmental influences.

In the normal brain, a large number of substances were ______ that were later found to be abnormal in quantity or metabolism in a substantial variety of neurological disorders.

Severe difficulties must be .............. before cloning can be done with mammals and humans.