Question

A friend of yours has volunteered for a study tells you that the researchers intend to examine his circulating red blood cells to determine whether the gene was successfully inserted into a chromosome. Has your friend misunderstood the planned procedures? Explain your reasoning

Answer 1

Yes

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that the red blood cell or we called as a RBSs does not contain any nuclei so there is no no chromosome or DNA also there is a lacking of the organelles cell

Therefore the gene therapy could not be done on red blood cells. The gene i.e. targeted would be mean to be inbuilt with the some other types of cell

Therefore the friend is misunderstood