Inheritance Games
This is what we call someone who shows no disease symptoms, despite having a copy of a mutant allele.
What is a carrier?
This cancer treatment seeks to induce p53 to activate, but can damage healthy tissue.
What is radiation?
This inheritance pattern requires two mutated genes to cause disease expression.
What is autosomal recessive?
This is the primary cell type affected by leukemia.
What are neutrophils?
Straight-haired Mike and curly-haired Molly have three wavy-haired children, showing this inheritance pattern.
This step comes after dysplasia and before invasive cancer, and is a tumor in a specific tissue.
What is in situ cancer?
This dominance pattern is exhibited in the ABO blood groups.
What is codominance?
Mutations in BRCA2 are common in Scandinavia due to this phenomenon, in which a small group of individuals colonize a new area.
What is the founder effect?
This term is used when the expression of one gene pair masks or modifies the expression of another.
What is epistasis?
Philadelphia chromosome, a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22, results in this protein being produced.
What is BRC-ABL1?