Human Disorders

Disorder that affects the body's ability to produce hemoglobin

• Thalassemia

• Sickle cell disease

• Hemophilia

• Cystic Fibrosis

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Affects the nervous sysdrome, causing individual to smile and laugh frequently.

• Angelman

• Thalassemia

• Apert

• Triple X

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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.

• True

• False

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Trisomy 21; three copies of chromosome 21 instead of 2

• Down Syndrome

• Klinefelter's syndrome

• Turner's syndrome

• Sickle cell disease

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Albinism affects ___________

• pigment proteins

• vesicle formation

• facial features

• brain formation

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which of the following would be an example of gene therapy technology?

• development of a nasal spray that contains copies of the normal gene that is defective in person with cystic fibrosis

• cutting DNA into fragments with restriction enzymes

• modifying E. coli to produce indigo dye for coloring denim blue jeans

• separation DNA fragments using gel electrophoresis

The Human Genome Project has made diagnosing genetic disorders easier.Once a genetic disorder is diagnosed, ____ can be used as a possible treatment.

• cell cultures

• gene therapy

• DNA fingerprinting

• PCR

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Down Syndrome

• The thickening and scarring of connective tissue as result of injury

• A disorder of structure or function in a living organism

• A genetic disorder in which a person’s blood clots very slowly or not at all

• When a person’s cells have an extra copy of chromosome 21

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Genetic Disorder

• An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes

• The recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry of a person or family

• The number and appearance of chromosomes in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell

• The thickening and scarring of connective tissue as result of injury

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Fibrosis

• An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes

• The recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry of a person or family

• The number and appearance of chromosomes in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell

• The thickening and scarring of connective tissue as result of injury