Describe how gene therapy can be a social issue and give rise to moral, ethical and legal debates. Justify your response in two or more complete sentences in the essay box below.

Gene therapy is the process or replacing mutated genes with normal genes in an attempt to heal diseases by correcting the functional code of the gene. Mutated genes can cause genetic disorders. Transformation and transfection are the two methods used to insert a normal gene into an organism. The process of transformation occurs in a laboratory. Cells are grown in the lab and then introduced to DNA that carries the gene of interest. Transfection uses a virus to introduce the gene of interest to the host cells.

Gene therapy is a relatively new biotechnology. It is very expensive and much more research needs to be done before it is perfected. Gene therapy has had the best results in the treatment of cancer. One of the ways gene therapy is used in cancer treatment is by inserting a gene that is more sensitive to treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.tion:

americans began to notice growing differences between the northern and southern sections of the country. there were more people living in cities in the north, which made it more urban. more people lived on farms in the south, which made it more rural. while many people were farmers in the northern states, there were now other ways to make a living, such as working in mechanical cotton gins factories manufacturing cloth, tools and other goods. people in the north supported high tariffs on goods imported from europe because the extra cost encouraged people to “buy american” instead. in the southern states, planters did not like tariffs because they sold most of their production to europe and bought their tools from there as well. southerners believed the protective tariff was something that only northern factory owners keep their profits high. so the southern politicians came up with an idea. they would opt out. they would simply ignore the protective tariff. it was ‘null and void’ in south carolina. the state would not collect the taxes on goods imported into south carolina, no matter what the president said they had to do. this decision led to the nullification crisis.