1. Which of the following would best serve as an appropriate title for the given passage?
(A) Transgenic animals and proteins
(B) Human proteins from transgenic animals
(C) Human protein harvesting
(D) Protein therapeutics
(E) Advantages and disadvantages of protein therapeutics
2. According to the passage, what is one of the advantages of human proteins over proteins obtained from bacteria?
(A) They can be produced in much larger quantities.
(B) They can be produced in exceedingly pure forms.
(C) They can be produced at much higher costs than any other.
(D) They take the least amount of time to produce.
(E) They can be given the appropriate post-translational modifications.
3. Which of the following questions does the passage answer?
(A) Why is the output of proteins from human cell cultures limited?
(B) Why are the proteins produced from bacteria unsuitable for use in treatments?
(C) How much usable protein is produced by a flock of transgenic animals?
(D) Why are animals better for transgenic production than sheep?
(E) What diseases can be cured from protein therapeutics and not by any other method?
4. According to the passage, all of the following is unsupported about protein therapeutics, EXCEPT that they
(A) can be used to treat AIDS and Hepatitis C.
(B) cure diabetes in humans.
(C) cannot be produced in transgenic animals.
(D) are used to create human insulin.
(E) treat undefined conditions.
5. According to the passage, which of the following can be said about animals produced by pronuclear injection?
(A) It takes twice the time to produce a pronuclear flock.
(B) It isn’t possible to predict their sex.
(C) More than double the number of transgenic animals is required to produce the same quantity of tissue activators.
(D) They make better test animals than do transgenic animals.
(E) Most animals cannot be produced with pronuclear injection but sheep can.
6. According to the passage, with which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?
(A) Producing human proteins in transgenic animals can be an alternative source of treatment.
(B) Human proteins are the best possible way for future research in medicine.
(C) Human proteins from transgenic animals is the only way we can meet the demands of the medical industry.
(D) Harvesting human proteins from bacteria or blood is absolutely unnecessary and economically unfeasible.
(E) Protein therapeutics is the most important discovery of the previous century in medical research.
7. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author’s contention against proteins produced from human cell culture?
(A) Proteins from human cell culture are the purest possible forms.
(B) The bigger the output required, the lower the cost of human cell culturing.
(C) Human cell culture is not opposed, as is producing transgenic animals, by animal rights activists.
(D) Culturing human cells in a lab is possible with a minimum amount of equipment and takes half the time of producing transgenic animals.
(E) Proteins produced in human cell culture are devoid of contamination and very accurate in replication.
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