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What kind of disease can be cured with the help of gene therapy?(a) Infectious(b) Hereditary(c) Physiological(d) AcuteThe question was posed to me in semester exam.My doubt stems from Biotechnological Applications in Medicine: Gene Therapy topic in portion Biotechnology and its Applications of Biology – Class 12

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Correct option is (b) Hereditary

To explain: Gene therapy is a TECHNIQUE used to cure hereditary diseases. It involves the introduction of a normal gene into the early embryonic STAGES to compensate for abnormal or MISSING genes. The normal gene is INTRODUCED into the ORGANISM using retrovirus or plasmid.



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