Genetic Diseases
Punnett Squares
Length and Quality of Life
Pedigrees
Vocabulary
100
What disease affects females and occurs when the x-chromosome is missing?
What is Turner Syndrome
100
What is a punnet square?
It is a chart that shows possible allele combos.
100
Sun exposure and ability to adapt to the environment?
What is the Environment
100
What does a square mean?
What is male.
100
What does homozygous mean?
What is purebred (same genes)
200
What disease affects red blood cells and blocks blood vessels?
What is Sickle Cell Disease
200
Explain why organisms with a dominant and recessive alleles only show the dominant trait?
The dominant allele will always mask the recessive allele.
200
Eat dead animals without properly cleaning it, bacteria in food, nutrient availability?
What is Your Diet
200
What does circle mean?
What is female.
200
What does heterozygous mean?
What is hybrid (different genes)
300
What disease affects lungs and digestive system and you get extreme coughing and mucus in the lungs?
What is Cystic Fibrosis
300
What does probability determine?
What is likely to occur.
300
Lack of clean drinking water and poor living conditions?
What is Sanitation
300
What does half shading mean?
What is the person is a carrier.
300
What does phenotype mean?
What is the physical appearance or visible trait of a person
400
What disease lacks clotting protein also bruising or scrapes can make you bleed out?
What is Hemophilia
400
How does a punnett square predict probability of genes?
It shows which dominant genes are passed on and which recessive genes are passed on as well.
400
Some genders live longer than others, certain genders are prone to certain diseases what category does it fall into?
What is Your Gender
400
What does full shading mean?
What is the person has the trait.
400
What does genotype mean?
What is the genetic make-up or the two genes you have.
500
What disease makes an extra copy of the chromosomes and occurs when chromosomes don't separate in meiosis and also causes heart defects and mental retardation?
What is Down's Syndrome
500
How is probability related to genetics?
We use probability to determine the likelihood of an offspring getting traits for each parent.
500
Faulty, missing, or extra genes/chromosomes cause disorders?
What is Genes
500
What does no shading mean?
What is the person does not have the trait and is not a carrier of the trait.
500
What does probability mean?
What is the number describing the likelihood of an event happening.
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