Question

4. Distinguish between
a. somatic gene therapy and germ line gene
therapy.
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Somatic therapies target genes in specific types of cells (lung cells, skin cells, blood cells, etc), while germline modifications, applied to embryos, sperm or eggs, alter the genes in all the resultant person’s cells.

Somatic cell modifications are noninheritable, affecting only the treated individual. Germline modifications would be passed on to future generations.

Somatic cell therapies have been tested and implemented for much longer. The first somatic trials occurred two and a half decades ago, while human germline editing studies have only just begun this year.