What is DNA synthesis? Is it a tool of gene modification?

What is DNA synthesis? Is it a tool of gene modification?

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Isn’t that where they make fake/synthetic DNA?

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Good idea - possible! But to discover such process can be long, costly and impractical since the access for DNA replication machinery would be much easier. Of course, you may take and drive this idea along as your thesis for your future study. China purportedly has scientists that have done this in mice, but there has not been duplication in another lab. To do this in humans is some time off.

DNA synthesis means creation of a new DNA molecule. Another term for that is DNA replication. A nucleic acid is a molecule made of building blocks called nucleotides. DNA and RNA are nucleic acids. Protein synthesis is the process of using instructions from DNA to build proteins out of building blocks called amino acids.

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