Describe how gene therapy can be a social issue and give rise to moral, ethical and legal debates. Justify your response in two or more complete sentences in the essay box below.

Gene therapy is the process or replacing mutated genes with normal genes in an attempt to heal diseases by correcting the functional code of the gene. Mutated genes can cause genetic disorders. Transformation and transfection are the two methods used to insert a normal gene into an organism. The process of transformation occurs in a laboratory. Cells are grown in the lab and then introduced to DNA that carries the gene of interest. Transfection uses a virus to introduce the gene of interest to the host cells.

Gene therapy is a relatively new biotechnology. It is very expensive and much more research needs to be done before it is perfected. Gene therapy has had the best results in the treatment of cancer. One of the ways gene therapy is used in cancer treatment is by inserting a gene that is more sensitive to treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.tion:

identify the dna change shown in the diagram and explain how that change can result in the increased genetic diversity often seen among siblings.identify the dna change shown in the diagram and explain how that change can result in the increased genetic diversity often seen among siblings.v

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