PART 1 Flashcards
A systematized body of knowledge based on experimentation, research, and facts
Science
The use of scientific knowledge and/or empirical knowhow for the production, improvement, and distribution of goods and service, as well as the satisfaction of other material needs is:
Technology
It is a group of person joined together for a common purpose or by a common interest:
Society
Wide-reaching change in the way something works, organized or change in people’s ideas:
Revolution
Products fabricated by humans to meet specific needs such as tools, machines, implements are
Artifacts or Hardware
A system of tacit and explicit knowledge, techniques, materials utilized in using, making, or repairing a certain kind of artifact:
Knowledge
Military men or civil engineers, crafters, machinists is/are a
Cultural activity or profession
an American technological know-how” an invention, patronage, mass production and mass consumption is/are
Societal Enterprise
The shift from nomadic life to farming led to the development of the city. Networks of transportation, communication, and trade systems, Specialized labor, Government and religion, Social class are impacts on which of the following areas:
Community Life
The nineteenth century witnessed the Industrial Revolution: Invention of textile manufacturing machines, Division of labor, Increase in production, Crowded cities, Unsafe and unhealthy working conditions are impacts on which of the following areas:
Industrial Revolution
Invention of the trolley car, automobile, Status symbol, Alternative to harsh, crowded city conditions and birth of suburbs happened on the:
20th Century
Technical innovations saved physical energy and lessened people’s workload: The tractor, The refrigerator, The vacuum cleaner, the washing machine, are technological impacts on
Work
The advancement of medical science such as in 1796, Edward Jenner paved the way for modern immunology by discovering a vaccine for smallpox, is a technological impact on
Health
14.Sir Alexander Fleming discovered ________, the first antibiotic, in 1928;
Penicillin;
16.In 1997, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, introduced Dolly the sheep, the first mammal ever to have been:
Cloned
15.Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, in 1846 was one of the first medical practitioners to use ________
: Anesthesia
is to papyrus
egypt
is to Roman alphabet:
ancient rome
is to public speaking, persuasive rhetoric, drama, and philosophy
ancient greece
is to printing press
europe
19.is a series of improvements in human life marked by inventions and discoveries:
Progress
20.It is the description, understanding, and prediction of physical phenomena through the use and generation of verifiable theories, laws and principle:
STS
- It is the study of how social, political, and cultural values that affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turns society:
STS
23.Scientists prefer to “look and see”. They won’t argue about it, but rather test to prove it:
Empiricism
24.Scientists prefer simple explanation, explain thing in a very simple way rather than complex way:
Parsimony
26.It leads to formation of concepts, methods, principles, theories, law and procedures:
Science
25.Scientists prefer very exact and very “picky”:
Precision
27.The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
Technology
28.It is the system of collective, cohabitation of groups of individuals with mutual understanding, benefits and common goals.
Society
29.This branch of science pertains to living organisms like microorganisms, plants, animals and human beings.
Life Science
30.It is the science concerned with food and nourishment and the role of nutrients in health:
Nutritional Science
31.This government office is responsible for organizing public healthcare and making sure that all Filipino citizens have access to quality health services:
Department of Health
32.This is one of the notable human success in the field of science and technology:
Printing Press, Telephone, X-ray
33.The invention of nuclear weapon in 1945, like the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima that caused death of many people, this is:
Threat to Human Survival
34.Exploitation of advance scientific knowledge and technological devices and systems gave rise to situation in which advances seem to have turned against their beneficiaries:
Ethical Dilemmas
35.There are advanced countries enjoying science and technology based success and hold high esteem in contemporary society versus millions of people in less developed countries who have not partaken in these benefits:
Disparities in Human Well-Being
36.Considering of the diverse range of intersecting issues and values at play in discussions about genetic engineering of organisms can help to identify and examine such broader impacts in research:
Impacts of Science on Society
37.Humans use technology to travel, to communicate, to learn, to do business and to live in comfort, however, technology has also caused us concerns:
Impacts of Technology on Society
38.It is a synthesis of a number of disciplines which depend on inputs from a wide range of scientific and technological fields:
Biotechnology
39.The following are the issues of bioethics:
Heart Transplant, Blood Transfusion, Homicide
40.Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was first isolated in 1869 by the Swiss biochemist:
Friedrik Miescher
42.It is refers to the future possibility of introducing new, functional genetic information contained in molecules of DNA into human cells with the intention of treating human genetic disease:
Gene Therapy
43.: is a synthesis of a number of disciplines which depend on inputs from a wide range of scientific and technological fields.
Biotechnology
