What is the major concern of using retroviral vectors to deliver or activate pluripotent genes?

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#Question id: 19107

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Assume that mating is random. First, consider an autosomal recessive disease that is usually lethal in childhood, and that has an incidence among newborns of 1/3000.  Perhaps the explanation for the incidence of the disease is heterozygote advantage. How large would this heterozygote advantage have to be (assuming the mutation rate is negligible)? 

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#Question id: 20260

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

The modified forms of starch have varied applications in food and other industries. Basic strategies to modify starch quality are 

(i) genetic modification of crops (by breeding or biotechnology)

(ii) food processing (using enzymes and chemicals)

(iii) food supplementation (modification of starch by employing microorganisms)

Which of the following strategies are correct?

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#Question id: 2213

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following properties is (are) typical of uniport proteins?

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#Question id: 21255

#Unit 12. Applied Biology

Industrially, the most important primary metabolites are amino acids, nucleotides and vitamins, these metabolites are manufactured by__

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#Question id: 2696

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Inverted repeat have a number of biological functions. Which of the following is a biological function of an inverted repeat?