Question 85 · LEK · Human genome and procreation
A doctor is to transfer a nucleus of the ovum to the cytoplasm of the ovum of another woman. As a result of this in vitro fertilization a child free of the defects associated with mitochondrial inheritance is going to be born. According to the Code of Medical Ethics such an act is:
- A. praiseworthy.
- B. allowed but only if the risk of birth defects is high.
- C. forbidden because experiments on human embryos are not allowed.
- D. forbidden because it would cause heritable genetic changes in humans.
- E. Code of Medical Ethics does not refer to this problem.
Hint
Ask whether replacing the egg's cytoplasm, and with it the mitochondrial DNA, creates a change that future generations would inherit.
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