Genetic Testing of an Embryo Is Available to Couples Who

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Genetic testing of an embryo is available to couples who want to avoid passing on a genetic defect to their offspring.One method of testing involves removing a single blastomere from an 8-cell stage embryo and analyzing it to determine if it carries the mutant gene.If no mutation is found,the now 7-cell embryo can be implanted in the woman,and it can go on to develop into a healthy infant.These results indicate that

• A) at least one of the cells in the human embryo at the 8-cell stage is not used in development.
• B) the embryo can compensate for the loss of a cell.
• C) not all cells are equally important.
• D) the human embryo at the 8-cell stage has not yet formed an inner-cell mass.
• E) the cell that is removed for testing is derived from the trophoblast.

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