How Is RNA Interference (RNAi)used as a Form of Gene

question 6

Multiple Choice

How is RNA interference (RNAi) used as a form of gene therapy?

• A)Stem cells are removed from a patient,injected with large pieces of RNAi that carry the gene recipe for a particular enzyme,and returned to the body of the patient.
• B)Large pieces of RNAi are directly injected into the damaged cells of a patient in order to deliver functional gene recipes.
• C)Small pieces of RNAi are used to map the location of specific genes that need to be edited out of the genome.
• D)Small pieces of RNAi are used to silence the expression of specific alleles.

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