Biology, Monday Exit Ticket, 1.21.19

What's Sickle Cell Anemia?

• a harsh hereditary form of anemia in which a mutated form of hemoglobin distorts the red blood cells into a crescent shape at low oxygen levels. It is most common among those of African descent.
• a deadly disease 
• something good
• something that makes you big

What's Sickle Cell Trait? 

• Sickle cell trait occurs when your whole family has it. 
• Sickle cell trait occurs when your parent eats a lot, and most of the food is going to you.  
• Sickle cell trait occurs when people carries a 1 copy of the sickle globin gene inherited from 1 parent along with a normal globing gene from the other parent.
• Sickle cell trait occurs when you eat less, and loose wait. 

People with sickle cell anemia are born with it? 

• False 
• True

Q: Why is it called sickle cell anemia? 

• Its name is obtained from the sickle shape the cell takes when the twisted hemoglobin inside the red blood cell becomes rigid, causing a distorted shaped blood cell that becomes lodged in the arteries or flows irregularly.
• Because you sick.
• Its name is sickle cell anemia because only sick people have it 
• Its called sickle cell anemia, due to the case.

How's sickle cell disease diagnosed?

• blood test
• blood vessel 
• chest pain
• head aches 

The function of red blood cells is to

• clot blood

• carry oxygen

• carry nutrients like glucose

• kill infections

Which of the following treatments is a cure for sickle cell disease?

• bone marrow transplant

• hydroxyurea

• transfusion therapy

• none of the above; you can't cure sickle cell!

Sickle cell disease is

• a dominant autosomal disease

• a recessive autosomal disease

• a dominant sex-linked disease

• a recessive sex-linked disease