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A lab technician needs to identify an unknown bacterial species using mass spectrometry. What is being analyzed from a pure culture of this bacteria to determine its identity?

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) primarily targets which subset of immune cells?

Which of these would be a valid reason to undertake audits in healthcare?

Criticisms of (objections to) Utilitarianism include…

J.J. Thomson’s “person-seed” argument strives to defend allowing abortion in cases in which…

The list of Kant’s “perfect duties” (especially from the class handout) includes…

According to our discussion on Ethical Theories, in the example of the New York Yankees baseball team and the hunger emergency, the nonconsequentialist thinker would be more likely to…

For Kant, an inclination (desire) to want to help an old lady across the street is always a superior motive to simply doing the act out of duty (i.e. doing it because it’s simply the right thing to do).

In the classical version of utilitarianism theory, J.S. Mill was the philosopher that focused on the quantity of the pleasure (i.e., simply how many units of pleasure/happiness), and J. Bentham was the philosopher who also took into account the quality (type) of the pleasure produced (i.e. intellectual pleasures versus simpler ones) when assigning the number of units of pleasure from each activity.

In the book, one of the criticisms of Utilitarianism was how certain rules (even proposed in rule-utilitarianism) seem to…