What is CRISPR?
What is the purpose of CRISPR?
To edit genes.
What is CRISPR?
A gene editing technology.
Whose genes did He edit?
The genes of two twin girls.
Of which nationalities were the inventors of CRISPR?
American and British.
What is Cas9?
An enzyme.
Can a gene ever be replaced with a new one?
Yes.
Were these twins the only embryos whose genes He edited?
No. He also edited the genes of at least one other embryo.
What would the naturally occurring Cas9 Enzyme do when a virus came?
It would cut out that part of the DNA.
What does the C in CRISPR stand for?
Clustered.
CRISPR functions like "a molecular _______"
Scalpel
Which did disease did He edit the genes for?
He edited them so the children would have a reduced risk of AIDs.
Did the creators of CRISPR patent it's use on humans?
No. The did not trademark it's use for human cells.
What does the P is CRISPR stand for?
Palindromic.
How does the CRISPR gene editor find the virus?
It is given an RNA sequence to recognize the matching DNA sequence.
What could be a problem with what Jiankui He did?
Each cell may not be edited equally. (This is just one possible answer)
What did scientists discover which led them to create CRISPR?
They discovered clusters of repeating DNA sequence that was near to DNA of viruses that attacked the cells.