Genetic Disorders and Advances in Genetics

True or False.  Some genetic disorders are caused by changes in the DNA of genes, but some are caused by changes in the structure or number of chromosomes.

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True or False.  Pictured above is a pedigree, a tool geneticists use to trace the inheritance of traits through generations. 

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True or False.  Pictured above is a karyotype, a tool doctors use to check a person's DNA to diagnose genetic disorders.

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True or False.  Pictured above is a karyotype of a male human being.

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True or False.  With the genetic disorder known as Down Syndrome, a person's cells have an extra copy of chromosome 21. 

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True or False.  A clone has exactly the same genes as the organism from which it was produced.

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True or False.  All the DNA in one cell of an organism is called a genome.

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True or False.  Genetic engineering is used to produce a protein called insulin, which helps people who suffer from diabetes.

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True or False.  DNA fingerprinting allows scientists to use ribosomal DNA to determine a person's identity and relatedness to others.

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True or False.  The mission Human Genome Project is to identify the DNA code of every gene in each of our chromosomes.

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