Title: Define bioethics.
Course: Biotechnology Foundations in Health and Medical Sciences (14252) > Section: Examining Social, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology

Definition should include the standard description of ethics and the relationship of biotechnology to ethics. Definition should also include social, economic, religious, and political perspectives.

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why does the study of biotechnology require the study of ethics?
- What are prominent ethical issues raised by biotechnology?
- How are ethics different from laws?
- Why are ethical principles essential?
- Why are there differences in ethical principles from one person or group to another?
- Whose ethics should guide biotechnology, and why?