The measures that currently govern biosecurity issues are prior to synthetic biology. Given the risks posed by this discipline, these existing regulations must be revisited, updated and, if necessary, extended to implement new specific guidelines and laws.
A. shortened
B. loosened
C. tightened
D. extended
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Education and awareness-raising of dual-use risks are biosecurity measures suggested to aid prevention. Among the measures needed to deal with an attack already produced, strategies to _________________________ the attack and development of consequence management capabilities are needed.
A. cover and publicize
B. avoid and elude
C. cover and avoid
D. recognize and attribute
A challenge for biosecurity is the potential of synthetic biology to further complicate the identification of a disease outbreak, so that synthetic causative agents could be ______________________ with the means currently at our disposal.
A. unforgettable
B. unforgivable
C. undetectable
D. uneditable
Given that synthetic biology is intended to be accessible to a large number of people, by simplifying and lowering the cost of the necessary processes and material, it is worrisome that the means are provided to __________ agents to perpetrate a bio-attack.
A. benign
B. malicious
C. pathogenic
D. risky
The rapidly-growing DIYbio movement, generates concerns regarding the increase in the probability of accidents, since practitioners with no biosafety training could be manipulating organisms in their homes, and also in terms of the possibility of pursuing reckless projects without any ______________.
A. control
B. regulation
C. rule
D. management