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In therapeutic clonging, why are the embryonic cells used to treat an individual not rejected by that individual?
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Because the embryonic cells are cloned from the same individual they are injected into
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Implantation of the human embryo in the uterus occurs on day _____ after fertilization
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7
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Embryonic stem cells come from embryos specifically made for research
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False
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What disease has the AAV vector cured in rhesus monkeys?
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Anemia
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Therapeutic cloning successfully addresses the key problem of _____, which must be solved before embryonic stem cells can be used to repair damaged human organs.
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Immune acceptance
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Which of the following problems exist when performing human gene therapy?
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All of the choices are correct
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If a gene has been methylated:
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The polymerase protein can no longer recognize it to read
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Which of the following has not yet been attempted by scientists?
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Gene intervention of germ-line tissue
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Therapeutic cloning involves initiating _____ development from a patient's tissue using nuclear transplant procedures.
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Blastocyst
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When cloning Dolly, in order to encourage the plasma membranes of the two cells to become leaky so that the contents of the mammary cell passed into the egg cell, researchers applied:
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An electrical shock
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At what point does the U.S. Supreme Court take the position that human life begins?
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When independent survival is possible
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The idea of cloning animals was presented by _____ in 1938.
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Spemann
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Adult stem cells offer an alternative to embryonic stem cells, however they:
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Are difficult to identify
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One disease in which gene therapy was used, but not successfully yet is:
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Cystic fibrosis
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Ian Wilmut successfully cloned Dolly the sheep from a fully differentiated sheep cell. This type of cloning is known as:
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Reproductive cloning
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