A heredity passed to from your mother and father through sexual reproduction.
What is DNA
100
What is Nucleotides Part of the Genetic DNA are?
What is Nucleotides
100
An illness causing serious lung problems the occurs when offspring inherit two recessive alleles for the disease
What is Cystic Fibrosis
100
Procedure for prenatal diagnosis
What is Genetic amniocentesis
100
A scientist who is certified to work in medical and scientific areas related to genes
What is Geneticist
200
DNA is a repository of what
What is Biological information
200
Each nucleotide has what?
What is a sugar, a phosphate, and a base
200
A genetic disorder linked to genes on the X-Chromosome that causes muscle weakness and degeneration. Usually affects boys
What is Duchene's Muscular Dystrophy
200
Person who does not have a disease, but has one non-functioning gene for a recessive disorder, and so may transmit the disease to offspring
What is carrier
200
Counselor that works with families to fully understand risks of certain genetic disorders such a neuromuscular diseases
What is Genetic Counselor
300
DNA is a what kind of disk
What is a floppy disk
300
The four bases are?
What is Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
300
Delayed development and mental retardation caused by an extra copy of chromosomes 21.
What is Down Syndrome
300
Blood testing done at 14-20 weeks to assess the risk of a fetus having a disorder
What is Maternal serum screening
300
Nurses that specifically care for the genetic health of patients who have genetic issues such as Huntington disease hereditary breast cancer and cystic fibrosis
What is Genetic Nurses
400
Influence over the other so the you show one trait over the other is
What is Dominant
400
What is the correct name for DNA shape?
What is a double helix
400
A blood disorder that creates deformed red blood cells that have trouble carrying oxygen. Caused when offspring inherit two recessive alleles for the disease.
What is Sickle Cell Anemia
400
Laboratory testing to find out whether a condition will develop in the future, such as breast cancer
What is pre-symptomatic testing
400
typically M.D.s or Ph.D.s undertaking research directed toward understanding the molecular basis of genetic diseases.
What is Research geneticists
500
Passive or hidden
What is Recessive
500
What bases pair together?
What is Thymine and Adenine and what is Guanine and
Cytosine
500
similar symptom-wise to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in that it shows itself in similar fatigue, potential mental retardation, and weakening muscles (particularly legs).
What is Becker Muscular Dystrophy
500
Using laboratory tests and family history to determine the odds of a certain outcome
What is risk assessment
500
use modern genetic technology in legal or police work, agriculture and food science, pharmaceutical development or clinical medicine.