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- 3. What health condition do you think urgently needs to be treated by gene therapy? Justify your answer. 4. Why does gene therapy cost so much? 5. Is gene therapy safe? What are the possible side effects?1. How are bacteria used in genetic engineering to produce medicine for people? 2. How is recombinant DNA technology used in medicine?Which of the following is not true of somatic cell gene therapy? a. White blood cells can be used. b. Somatic cells are cultured, and the desired DNA is introduced into them. c. Cells with the introduced DNA are returned to the body. d. The technique is still very experimental. e. The inserted genes are passed to the offspring.
- What information and materials are needed to amplify region of DNA using PCR?Why are antibiotic resistance markers such as ampR important components of bacterial plasmid cloning vectors? a. The plasmid must have resistance to accept DNA inserts. b. They allow the detection of plasmids that contain an inserted DNA fragment. c. They ensure the presence of the ori site. d. They ensure that the plasmid can be cut by a restriction enzyme. e. They allow identification of bacteria that have taken up a plasmid.In the Hershey-Chase experiment with bacteriophages, (a) harmless bacterial cells permanently transformed into virulent cells (b) DNA was shown to be the transforming factor of earlier bacterial transformation experiments (c) the replication of DNA was conclusively shown to be semiconservative (d) viral DNA was shown to enter bacterial cells and cause the production of new viruses within the bacteria (e) viruses injected their proteins, not their DNA, into bacterial cells
- After a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), agarose gel electrophoresis is often used to: a. amplify the DNA. b. convert cDNA into genomic DNA. c. convert cDNA into messenger RNA. d. verify that the desired DNA sequence has been amplified. e. synthesize primer DNA molecules.3. Describe the experiments done by Hershey and Chase That Verified That DNA was the genetic material. Make sure you also include their conclusions.7. Why recombinant DNA is very useful in improving our health conditions?A. Human insulin can be reproduced by bacteria?B. Vaccine can be reproduced by fungi or bacteriaC. Human growth hormone can be obtained from E. ColiD. All of the above 8. Which of the following is/are example of genetic engineering?A. A farmer choose a breed of cow for greater milk production.B. The use of bacteria in order to produce human insulinC. The insertion of clone genes to plant cellsD. Cross pollination of squash flowers. 9. Bacterial cells as host organisms may expose the gene to make protein products such as insulin and growth hormone . Which of the following processes are involved?A. replication and transcription. B. Transcription and replication C. Transcription and transformation. D. Replication and transformation
- 2. Discuss the use of transposons as mutagens in bacteria.4. Which type of PCR (End-point PCR, RT-PCR, qPCR)is used for diagnosing Covid-19 patients? Why is this PCR procedure used?4. What is the name of the process by which bacteria pick up a different organism’s geneticmaterial?5. Genetically, how does the original bacterial DNA (plasmid) differ from the final bacterial DNAmolecule? (Do not say, “It is longer.”)6. Tetracycline is an antibiotic that is prescribed to kill bacterial infections. The transformedbacterial cell that you created has the tetracycline resistant gene in it. If this cell is placed on agrowth medium with tetracycline, will the bacteria grow or die? Explain.
