Genetic Advances

10. Lesson Summary

Lesson Summary

• Using recombinant DNA technology, a foreign gene can be inserted into an organism’s DNA.
• Cloning of mammals is still being perfected, but several cloned animals have been created by implanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into a cell in which the nucleus has been removed.
• The Human Genome Project produced a genetic map of all the human chromosomes and determined the sequence of every base pair in our DNA.
• Gene therapy involves treating an illness caused by a defective gene through the use of a vector to integrate a normal copy of the gene into the patient.

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