In Classic Case #2,the Venter Institute Filed Patent #US 2007

question 30

Multiple Choice

In Classic Case #2,the Venter Institute filed patent #US 2007 0264688 with the U.S.Patent Office in an attempt to patent synthetic life because Venter had produced a self-replicating ________ completely under the control of a synthetic genome.

• A)patent
• B)copyright
• C)amoeba cell
• D)bacterial cell

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