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6: Regulation in Biotechnology

Students review FDA history, clinical trial phases, the Asilomar Conference, the Coordinated Framework, biotech patents, CRISPR patent disputes, and drug regulation.

Clinical Trial Phases from Descriptions

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Match each clinical-trial phase to the correct description.

Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.

Your Choice Prompt
Drop Your Choice Here 1. Phase 3
Drop Your Choice Here 2. Phase 4
Drop Your Choice Here 3. Phase 0
Drop Your Choice Here 4. Phase 2
Drop Your Choice Here 5. Phase 1

Drag one of the choices below:

  • A. Compare the drug with other treatments while continuing to monitor side effects
  • B. Patients who are already taking the approved drug
  • C. Test whether the drug is effective against the disease and record its side effects
  • D. Altruistic volunteers who accept an invasive study that offers no treatment benefit
  • E. Healthy volunteers, or terminally ill volunteers when healthy people should avoid the drug
 

Types of Intellectual Property from Descriptions

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Match each type of intellectual property to the correct description.

Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.

Your Choice Prompt
Drop Your Choice Here 1. Patent
Drop Your Choice Here 2. Trademark
Drop Your Choice Here 3. Copyleft
Drop Your Choice Here 4. Copyright

Drag one of the choices below:

  • A. protects a brand name or logo that identifies the source of a product
  • B. gives its owner the exclusive right to exclude others from making an invention
  • C. gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time
  • D. requires that modified versions of a free work stay free for others to use
 

Federal Agency Roles in Transgenic Crop Regulation

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Match each federal agency to its role in regulating transgenic crops.

Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.

Your Choice Prompt
Drop Your Choice Here 1. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Drop Your Choice Here 2. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Drop Your Choice Here 3. Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Drop Your Choice Here 4. National Institute of Health (NIH)

Drag one of the choices below:

  • A. Writes the guidelines that limit how a transgenic crop is constructed and grown.
  • B. Assesses the environmental effect of a transgenic crop on the animals around the farm.
  • C. Reviews the safety of food made from a transgenic crop before people eat it.
  • D. Grants the permit for an outdoor field trial of a transgenic crop.
 

Patentable Inventions Versus Scientific Discoveries

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Which one of the following is a discovery rather than a patentable invention?
 

Clinical Trial Phases from Study Descriptions

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Which one of the following clinical-trial phases correspond to the description 'A few hundred randomized patients chosen with strict eligibility rules'.

 

Types of Intellectual Property from Descriptions

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Which one of the following types of intellectual property correspond to the description 'lets the inventor stop others from making, using, or selling the invention'.

 

Federal Agencies by Transgenic Crop Regulatory Responsibility

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Which one of the following federal agencies correspond to the regulatory job 'Checks whether a transgenic crop harms insects or other animals living in the field.'.