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Test Your Knowledge on CRISPR

Developed by - Dr. Lakshmi Venkataraman, MD

Health Quiz reviewed by - The Medindia Medical Review Team

Last Updated on Aug 18, 2018

This Quiz has 10 questions.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) Quiz Responses

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Test Your Knowledge on CRISPR

CRISPR/CAS Technology - Potential Cure For All Diseases

CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology is a revolutionary gene cutting tool and has innumerable uses in medicine such as removing cancer or disease causing genes and inserting normal genes. Take this quiz to learn more about this novel technology.

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