Genetic Disease

What is a genetic disease?

• Inherited disease

• Bacterial disease

• Contagious disease

• Viral disease

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What is the probability of a child having cystic fibrosis if parents are carriers?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

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What is the average lifespan of someone with cystic fibrosis?

• 40 years old

• 50 years old

• 30 years old

• 44 years old

What letters represent someone who has cystic fibrosis?

• GG

• Cc

• CC

• cc

Which of the following is the primary reason that selective breeding cannot completely eliminate genetic diseases or unwanted traits from a population?

• offspring can inherit the genetic disease or unwanted traits from a parent that is a carrier.

• Selective breeding can increase the appearance of a genetic disease in a population because the frequency of normally rare genes that can cause the disease increases

• Heterozygous individuals in the population can pass on the recessive gene for the diseases or unwanted traits

• the genetic disaes or unwanted traits can reappear in the population as a result of new mutations.

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How many human genetic disorders are known?

• 1

• 100

• Thousands

• None

Genetic disorder that progressively replaces muscle with fat and fibrous tissue leading to muscle wekaness

• Fibromyalgia

• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

• Myasthenia gravis

• Polio

Which is not a method of diagnosing genetic disorders?

• Karyotyping

• Genetic Counseling

• Amniocentesis

• Cloning

• Using Punnett Squares

Genetic disorder that causes abnormally shaped hemoglobin

• anemia

• phlebotomist

• medical lab tech

• sickle cell anemia

• pulse oximeter

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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