Genetic Diseases
Punnett Square
Pedigrees
Length and quality of life
Vocabulary
100
What is the disease that causes you to have thick mucus in your lungs and intestines?
Cystic Fibrosis
100
What is a Punnett Square?
A diagram that is used to predict the outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment.
100
What is a pedigree?
A diagram or chart that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism
100
What does medical care give you?
A longer life.
100
True or false. Herterozygous is another word for purebred.
False.
200
What is one symptom of hemophilia?
Blood clots slowly or not at all, no protein is produced for regular clotting, internal bleeding from bumps/bruises
200
What is homozygous?
Two identical alleles for a trait (purebred)
200
What does whole shading represent on a pedigree chart?
Has the trait and shows it.
200
What can chromosomes cause?
Disorders/diseases
200
What is the dominant gene?
The one that shows up no matter what
300
What disease occurs from a copy of chromosome 21?
Down Syndrome
300
What is a phenotype?
Physical appearance or visible trait
300
What does a horizontal line represent on a pedigree chart?
Connects marriage.
300
True or false. Some genders are prone to certain diseases.
True.
300
What is a genotype?
genetic makeup or allele combination.
400
What is sickle cell disease?
When people get sickle shaped blood cells and it clogs vessels and carries limited amounts of oxygen.
400
Give an example of a phenotype.
Brown eyes, brown hair, widows peak, etc.
400
What does no shading mean?
This person does not have the trait and is not a carrier.
400
True or false. Poor living conditions lengthen your life.
False.
400
What is a trait?
something that you have, brown hair ,blue eyes, etc.
500
List all the diseases we talked about.
Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle-cell Disease, Hemophilia, Down Syndrome, Pompe Disease
500
What do the letters represent in a Punnett Square?
The genotype.
500
What do the square and circle represent?
Square-male Circle- female
500
True or false. Eating dead animal without proper cleaning can lead to a shorter life.
True.
500
What is a hybrid?
A combination of two different genotypes
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