Sickle Cell

When you look at the cells of individuals with sickle cell anemia, what do you expect to see?

• C-shaped cells

• S-shaped cells

• Disk-Shaped Cells

• Globular shaped cells

• Sick cells

Sickle red blood cells have a decreased ability to carry 

• nutrients

• wastes

• oxygen

• proteins

The mutation of sickle cell disease is what type of mutation?

• nonsense

• frameshift

• substitution

• missense

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What shape do the affected cells form in

• long tube cells

• crescent shaped cells

• small cells

• disc shaped cells

Genetic disorder that causes abnormally shaped hemoglobin

• anemia

• phlebotomist

• medical lab tech

• sickle cell anemia

• pulse oximeter

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What does sickle cell affect

• Eyesight

• Dexterity

• Blood

• Lungs

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In Sickle Cell Anemia, which protein is affected by a mutation?

• Insulin

• Hemoglobin

• Glucagon

• Red blood cell

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Sickle cell anemia is caused by what type of mutation?

• Chromosomal mutation

• Non-disjunction

• DNA substitution mutation

• None of these

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Sickled RBC

• A

• B

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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Sickle cell disease causes hemoglobin to be in the wrong conformation, this causes

• undergo translation

• the cell to be misshapen

• the cell to divide

• mutate

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