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This term describes the change in allele frequencies within a population over generations.
What is evolution?
This technology delivers genetic material to treat or prevent disease.
What is gene therapy?
This term describes the community of microorganisms living in and on the human body.
What is the microbiome?
This field examines the ethical, legal, and social implications of advances in biology and medicine.
What is bioethics?
This process tells us the order of all the A's, T's, C's and G's in a person's chromosomes.
What is genome sequencing?
Random changes in allele frequencies, especially impactful in small populations, are known as this.
What is genetic drift?
This genetic tool, inspired by bacterial immune systems, acts as molecular scissors to edit DNA.
What is CRISPR-Cas9?
The microbiome in this body part helps protect against harmful microbes and includes species like Staphylococcus.
What is the skin?
One of the core principles of bioethics, this term emphasizes respecting an individual's right to make informed decisions.
What is autonomy?
This type of disorder is caused by the combined effect of many genes working together.
What is a polygenic disorder?
The ability to digest lactose into adulthood evolved in populations practicing this activity.
What is dairy farming?
Scientists Charpentier and Doudna won this award for their breakthrough work in gene editing.
What is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
The gut microbiome helps break down these indigestible carbohydrates found in fruits, vegetables, grains, and... potatoes!
What are starches?
This principle in bioethics focuses on promoting the well-being of others.
What is beneficence?
The vast majority of genomic research has been done in people of this ancestry?
What is European?
This English naturalist is famous for his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
A researcher in China controversially edited embryonic cells to make them resistant to this infectious disease.
What is HIV?
This practice, still under study, exposes C-section-born babies to their mother's vaginal microbiome to support health.
What is vaginal seeding?
Ensuring equitable access to genetic technologies relates to this core bioethics principle.
What is justice?
This type of score is currently used to diagnose and treat several non-monogenic diseases?
What is the Polygenic Risk Score?
This effect describes the reduced genetic diversity when a new population is founded by a small number of individuals.
What is the founder effect?
This delivery method involves modifying cells outside the body and returning them.
What is ex vivo therapy?
Promoting the growth of Akkermansia muciniphila, people with certain variants of MUC2 have this trait in their gastrointestinal tract.
What is thicker gut mucus?
This publicly-available genetic database was used to catch the Golden State Killer.
The human genome is this many base pairs long.
What is 3.4 billion base pairs?