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Which of the following statements about gene therapy are correct?
P. Affected individuals, but not their progeny, can be cured through germline gene therapy.
Q. Affected individuals, as well as their progeny, can be cured through germline gene therapy.
R. Affected individuals, but not their progeny, can be cured through somatic gene therapy.
S. Affected individuals, as well as their progeny, can be cured through somatic gene therapy.
The acidification of oceans is increasing. Why is this phenomenon a cause of concern? 1. The growth and survival of calcareous phytoplankton will be adversely affected. 2. The growth and survival of coral reefs will be adversely affected. 3. The survival of some animals that have phytoplanktonic larvae will be adversely affected. 4. The cloud seeding and formation of clouds will be adversely affected. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
In which of the following conditions, the image of the object is formed in front of the retina instead of forming on the retina?
In the context of hereditary diseases, consider the following statements : 1. Passing on mitochondrial diseases from parent to child can be prevented by mitochondrial replacement therapy either before or after in vitro fertilization of the egg. 2. A child inherits mitochondrial diseases entirely from the mother and not from the father. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?  
About 40 million people (over 75% are children) are affected by water borne diseases every year. Nearly six million children below 14 years of age suffer from fluorosis due to fluoride contamination in water. Arsenic is another dangerous contaminant in ground water, putting at risk more than 10 million people in the country. Bacteriological contamination, which leads to diarrhea, cholera, hepatitis etc., is at alert level in India. Contamination due to Iron, hardness and salinity in water are other major concern. Medical expenditure on water borne diseases is estimated to be Rs. 2400 crores annually in the country. The need for desalination and water purification is destined to grow in the coming years as the requirement for water increases. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has been engaged in R&D on desalination and water purification technologies for several years and has developed indigenous technologies which are available for know-how transfer to interested parties The given information, if accurate, most accurately supports which statement?
Systemic autoimmune diseases are
Symptoms of fungal diseases may be localised or systemic.
Fungus diseases that occur on the nails, skin, hair are referred to as systemic mycoses.
Suppose on performing reduced error pruning, we collapsed a node and observed an improvement in the prediction accuracy on the validation set. Which among the following statements are possible in light of the performance improvement observed? (a) The collapsed node helped overcome the effect of one or more noise affected data points in the training set (b) The validation set had one or more noise affected data points in the region corresponding to the collapsed node (c) The validation set did not have any data points along at least one of the collapsed branches (d) The validation set did have data points adversely affected by the collapsed node
Infectious diseases are diseases that can spread from an infected person to a healthy person. Which of the following can make you ill if you come in contact with an infected person?