Which of the following statements about gene therapy is not true? A. Functioning genes are used to replace mutated genes.
B. Gene therapy can cure any disease.
C. Somatic gene therapy only works on individuals.
D. Gene therapy is another form of artificial selection.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a serious condition caused by a recessive allele of a gene on the human x chromosome. the patients have muscles that weaken over time because they have absent or decreased dystrophin, a muscle protein. they rarely live past their twenties. how likely is it for a woman to have this condition? a) women can never have this condition. b) one-fourth of the daughters of an affected man would have this condition. c) one-half of the daughters of an affected father and a carrier mother could have this condition. d) only if a woman is xxx could she have this condition.