Gene Therapy: An Overview

A genes are a section of DNA. Found to be physical and functional unit of heredity. Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. They contain the instructions for our individual characteristics ? like eye and hair colour. A person's genetic code is responsible for coding proteins which constitutes our physical makeup. A single alteration to this code can result in a favorable effects includes helping organisms adapt to changes in their environment and increase their of survival or reproduction. As well as non-favorable effect includes cancer , cystic fibrosis and many more.