a disease is a good candidate for gene therapy? * They test it out before actually trying it out on a client or patient‚ liver or lung cells are infected with the viral vector. 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using viral vectors for gene therapy? * Some disadvantages of using viral vectors are that the new gene may be inserted in the wrong DNA location. An advantage of using viral vectors is that some viruses a=can transfer good genes into the human cell. 3. What
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scientists are experimenting with gene therapy as a way to permanently help people who have hemophilia and other inherited diseases. Gene therapy involves inserting healthy genes into human cells to correct or prevent diseases. When genes are introduced into body cells other than eggs and sperm‚ this is called somatic cell gene therapy. Any effects are limited to the person receiving the therapy as the new genes are not passed on to future generations. Germ line gene therapy refers to the correction
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the deterioration of the relationship between Gene and Finny. Gene has a growing jealousy towards his bestfriend Phineas. Because Finny always “gets away with everything” and can be whoever he wants to be‚ while Gene feels as if he is imprisoned within his own body (Knowles 28). The dangerous envy Gene feels towards Finny is eating away at his soul and is in no way healthy for the friendship‚ or Genes well being. Because of this jealousy‚ Gene can not fully accept Finny and his mischevious
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Abstract The body of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) are surrounded by a cuticle that is molted four times in development although not all cuticle collagen genes are expressed at once. Mutations in these genes lead to morphological defects such as blister formation in the cuticle. The blister phenotype (Bli) is inherited recessively and develop in the adult stage of C. elegans. Other cuticle collagen mutations‚ such as the uncoordinated (unc)‚ roller (rol) and dumpy (dpy) mutations‚ can suppress
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Biology‚ 7e (Campbell) Chapter 15: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance Chapter Questions 1) Chromosomes and genes share all of the following characteristics except that A) they are both present in pairs in all diploid cells. B) they both undergo segregation during meiosis. C) their copy numbers in the cell decrease after meiosis‚ and increase during fertilization. D) they are both copied during the S phase of the cell cycle. E) they both pair up with their homologues during
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Ksenia Semina Evolution Lab ARR 3 Blast Lab Analysis: Gene 1: The 4 organisms that were looked at in the Gene 1 are bird‚ vertebrate‚ rodent and bony fish. From the Blast result the most similar gene sequence to the gene of the gene of interest is Gallus gallus collaged which is also a bird. They are the most similar because the Gallus has the highest max score out of all other genes and 100% for the ident and there is no difference in the e-value. The species is located at the bird’s branch
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it’s single celled so we simply have to insert genes into a single cell for it to exhibit the trait‚ it reproduces quickly so we see results fast‚ there is a commonly used non-virulent strain‚ and it is cheap to grow and does not require a lot of resources. A plasmid is what we are going to use to give the E. coli cells their extra genetic material. Plasmids are separate pieces of DNA that are not part of the circle of DNA that holds most of the genes in a genome (Brooker et al.‚ 2011). The plasmid
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Human Genome Project were able to identify and map the 20‚000–25‚000 genes that define a human being. The project also successfully mapped the genomes of other species‚ including the fruit fly‚ mouse‚ and Escherichia coli. The location and complete sequence of the genes in each of these species are available for anyone in the world to access via the Internet. In this laboratory investigation‚ we used BLAST to compare several genes‚ and then use the information to construct a cladogram. A cladogram
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DNA‚ the chemical that makes up our genes‚ contains a "code" of three letter words known as "codons" or "trinucleotide repeats." Many genes normally contain a trinucleotide repeat‚ which is present several times. When the number of repeats increases to a larger than normal number of copies‚ the DNA is altered‚ and the gene may not function correctly or at all ("Trinucleotide repeats: fragile-x‚" 2008). Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. Males and females
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mother and 23 of your father). The genes are in your cells in the nucleus and some in the mitochondria. The genes are a small part of a long molecule called DNA. DNA is a double stranded molecule (sugar‚ phosphate and four different bases: Adenine‚ Thymine‚ Cytosine and Guanine). The bases in the DNA are in charge of writing the genetic code. Genes are the code to make specifically proteins (for example‚ that protein that makes your eyes be blue)‚ and these genes are inherited through the different
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