Mastering Genetics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Essentials of Genetics (9th Edition)
Mastering Genetics with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Essentials of Genetics (9th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134189994
Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino
Publisher: PEARSON
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The two ways to deliver the therapeutic gene into the cells.

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The genetic disorders caused due to faulty genes can be corrected by the transfer of normal genes into the patient. The normal genes are then transcribed producing a normal phenotype. These normal genes are known as the therapeutic genes and are the tools for correcting the genetic disorders and the method employed is known as gene therapy.

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