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What are diseases that can be caused by the lack of a functional gene for an enzyme?
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Tay-Sachs disease
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What enzyme deficiency causes disease?
Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) is a fatal condition caused by a deficiency of the enzyme hexosaminidase A (Hex-A).
What is the desired outcome of gene therapy?
Gene therapy has the desired outcome of eradicating or curing diseases that are caused by a specific abnormality or mutation of a gene that is a killer. It is a developing science and slowly getting results.
What is the theory the synthesis of each enzyme is catalyzed by one specific gene?
One gene one enzyme theory
Why must you use an enzyme that will not cut anywhere within the gene that you are inserting into a plasmid?
If you are trying to take a gene from a DNA strand and put insert it into a plasmid, you wouldn't want a restriction enzyme to cut that gene up, or else it would be pretty useless. In other words, you need an enzyme or two that cuts outside that gene so that it can be functional after it's inserted into a plasmid. After your gene of interest is inserted into a plasmid, the plasmid can be put back into a bacterium, then you could genetically engineer plants with it or let the bacterium reproduce and produce many copies of a protein that you had wanted to make in the first place.
What is the cause of galactosemia I?
Caused by defects in both copies of the gene that codes for an enzyme called galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT). There are 30 known different mutations in this gene that cause GALT to malfunction.
What is an example of a reccesive gene?
In humans, the gene that codes for the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase is an expmple of a recessive gene
What is the gene that codes for an enzyme needed by the proteins?
i am from russia. every russian scientist knows that the gene that codes for an enzyme needed by the proteins is mitochondrion and ribosomes.
A gene cannot react chemically and form a trait without the proper?
enzyme
How come there are no carriers in genetic diseases caused by dominant alleles?
If carried on a dominant allele, you either inherit it- and have the disease- or you don't- and do not have the disease, nor the gene that causes it. If you don't have the gene, you can not pass it to your offspring.
A fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity?
Genes are the functional units of heredity.
One gene controls the synthesis of one?
enzyme enzyme is right but it has been modified to polypeptide
What diseases can be treated by gene therapy?
It can be used to cure by placing the healthy gene or DNA in place of mutated DNA to cure any genetic disorder or cancers. Current therapy is to use drugs (chemicals) to solve problems. But gene therapy make a promise of complete cure if the gene is inserted completely in the deficient or damaged cells, once can be cured fully for the life time.
