Q. Which of the following is/are the benefit/s of CRISPR?
1.It can help in faster and efficient diagnosis of rare genetic diseases.
2.It can make farming more efficient and robust by creating resilient crops which are impervious to droughts and other environmental impacts.
3.It generated knowledge base would also help in speeding up the traditional drug discovery process.
Choose the correct answer from below given codes:

[A] 1 only

[B] 1 and 2 only

[C] 2 and 3 only

[D] 1, 2 and 3

Answer: D
Notes:

Explanation: Predictive and Preventive Healthcare: This can help in faster and efficient diagnosis of rare genetic diseases.

  • This will also help in determining epidemiology of genetic diseases to enable cost-effective genetic tests, enabling efficient diagnosis of heritable cancers, etc.
  • Food security: It can have a major impact on addressing food insecurity around the world by engineering more water efficient crops and high yielding varieties of plants and animals.
  • As a corollary, it can make farming more efficient and robust by creating resilient crops which are impervious to droughts and other environmental impacts.
  • Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology: CRISPR can bring customized and individualized therapies to market more quickly than was previously dreamed.
  • The CRISPR generated knowledge base would also help in speeding up the traditional drug discovery process.

Source: FORUMIAS

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