Many children born with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTC) die within seventy-two hours of birth. Jesse Gelsinger was not diagnosed with OTC until he was two because ________ and therefore his symptoms were milder.

A) his defective gene was autosomal recessive

B) he was a mosaic

C) of X-inactivation in males

D) of parental imprinting


B) he was a mosaic

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A.  DNA rearrangement B.  DNA reestablishment C.  clonal variability D.  instructional variation E.  gene cloning

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a. true b. false

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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