Question

Gene can therapy can be referred to as

• A. Pre-clinical testing for inherited diseases in newborns
• B. Treatment of diseases caused by genetic defect
• C. Genetic engineering using rDNA technology
• D. Cancer treatment using in-vitro cultured stem cells

Answer 1

The correct option is B Treatment of diseases caused by genetic defect

Gene therapy is a collection of methods, that allows correction of gene defect that has been diagnosed in a child/embryo. Correcting of a genetic defect involves delivery of a normal gene into the individual or embryo to take over the function of and compensate for the non-functional gene.