Which of the following is true of gene therapy?
a. Gene therapy has proven to be successful with a wide range of diseases and is often the only hope for a cure.
b. Gene therapy is widely viewed as unethical and is illegal in the United States.
c. Because many diseases are the result of multiple genes and their interactions with other genes and the environment, gene therapy is unlikely to produce quick cures.
d. Gene therapy has failed virtually every time it has been tried and has fallen out of favor with clinical researchers.
c
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a. authoritarian b. authoritative c. permissive d. restrictive e. inconsistent
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A. She will still have memories, but they will not have an emotional component. B. Surprisingly, her ability to use the method of loci will improve. C. She will be unable to transfer information from short-term to long-term memory. D. Her photographic memory is likely to disappear.
List and explain the functions of the five different areas of the brain, which are discussed in Chapter 8
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The term sensitive period applies better to human development than the strict notion of a critical period because
A) its boundaries are less well-defined than are those of a critical period. B) the capacity to acquire certain skills cannot occur later than the optimal period. C) there are more sensitive periods than critical periods in human development. D) sensitive periods, but not critical periods, have been empirically tested.