EBK BIOLOGY:SCIENCE F/LIFE
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Author: BELK
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Chapter 8, Problem 6LTB
Scientists have recently developed a process by which a skin cell from a human can be triggered to develop into a human heart muscle cell. This is possible because ___________.
- most cells in the human body contain the genetic instructions for making all types of human cells;
- a skin cell is produced when all genes in the cell are expressed; turning off some genes in the cell results in a heart cell;
- scientists can add new genes to old cells to make them take different forms;
- a skin cell expresses only recessive alleles, so it can be triggered to produce dominant heart cell alleles;
- it is easy to mutate the genes in skin cells to produce the alleles required for other cell type
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