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Describe how gene therapy can be a social issue and give rise to moral, ethical, and legal debates. Justify your response in two or more complete sentences.

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Answer:This type of gene therapy cannot be passed to a person's children. Gene therapy could be targeted to egg and sperm cells (germ cells), however, which would allow the inserted gene to be passed to future generations. This approach is known as germline gene therapy. The idea of germline gene therapy is controversial.

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