GENETIC THERAPY ; Before we proceed
let’s have a review of what genetics is all about, the scientist who study genetics are known as genetists. They carry out breeding experiments to fellow the inheritance patterns of observable characteristics.
The most observable suitable organisms for these experiments are the ones that are
* Show discontinuous features.
* Can be kept in a laboratory.
* Breed rapidly producing different offspring at a particular time.
We can define genetics as the studying heredity and variation. The scencetist that coined the word genetics was Dilliam Batetson in the year 1906.
THERAPY in question is the remedy for a particular illness.
Genetics therapy : A couple may avoid having children of their own on the basis so bad on the basis if genetics counselling. If they decide to have a child, amniocentesis reveals as several genetics disorder,they may choose to terminate the pregnancy.In some genetics disorders,the clinical symptoms can be prevented by treating the child he or she is born.
For example,if the phenylketonuria is diagnosed,the mother is placed on a low phenylketonurne diet .This prevents excessive formation of a substance that affects brain development .For example,if the phenylketonuria is diagnosed,the mother is placed on a low phenylketonurne diet .This prevents excessive formation of a substance that affects brain development .