If Gene Replacement Therapy Became Available

question 110

Multiple Choice

If gene replacement therapy became available

• A) it would not work for humans because we have too many chromosomes.
• B) it would involve a surgical technique that separates chromosomes that have failed to segregate properly during meiosis II.
• C) it could be used to treat victims of a recessive disease by removing the dominant damaging autosomal allele and replacing it with a harmless one.
• D) it would replace defective alleles with normal ones.
• E) it would remove entire chromosomes from cells and repair the defective genes.

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