unit 12

______ long-term goal is to help doctors select the drugs and doses best suited for each person

• Pharmacogenomic

• Chromosome

Missing a _______ may cause severe congenital problems and significant intellectual and physical disability

• pathogen

• chromosome

Structures found in the centre (nucleus) of cells that carry long pieces of DNA

• genomics

• chromosome

An infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance, multiple continents or worldwide

• A pandemic

• A quarantine

The COVID-19 ______ is a global outbreak of coronavirus, an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome

• endemic

• pandemic

A small solution to big problems. For example, Invisible particles that fight cancer cells

• nanotechnology

• mutation

Alteration or variation in DNA sequence can cause _____

• a mutation

• a stigma

________ is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem

• A stigma

• A patent

Aimed at identifying all functional elements and build a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome

• heredity

• decode

The sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring (kids)

• heredity

• mutation