The Human Genome Project
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Genetic diseases
Potpourri
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This is the average percentage of nucleotides one human shares with another.
What is 99.9%?
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Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Forbes listed her as fourth on its list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world.
Who is Lady Gaga?
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Extraordinary Measures is about the struggle to develop a cure for this disease.
What is Pompe disease?
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A feature of this disease is a change in red blood cell shape.
What is sickle cell anemia?
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PCR stands for this.
What is polymerase chain reaction?
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To address the ethical, legal, and social issues that would arise, to improve tools for data analysis, to store the information in public databases, to identify & determine the function of all human genes, to sequence the 3 billion chemical base pairs.
What were the goals of the human genome project?
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Our current secretary of state. Prior to her current position she served as Senator from New York.
Who is Hilary Clinton?
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The name of the cloned bull who violently attacked his master multiple times.
Who is Second Chance?
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Another name for Down syndrome.
What is trisomy 21?
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Lemurs come from this country.
What is Madagascar?
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The year Craig Venter and his firm Celera Genomics entered the sequencing race.
What is 1998? (It officially started in 1990)
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This is the nickname of Colton Harris-Moore. 20th Century Fox purchased the rights to produce a film based on his life of thievery. He was recently captured in the Bahamas after an intense boat chase.
What is the "Barefoot Bandit" or "Barefoot Burglar"?
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He makes science "sexy!"
Who is Francis Collins?
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy follows this type of inheritance pattern.
What is X-linked recessive?
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Pompe disease follows this type of inheritance pattern.
What is autosomal recessive?
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E. coli, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, M. Musculus.
What were the model organisms sequenced as part of the human genome project?
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This is the real name of Duke's all-time most winning basketball coach. He has recently won an olympic gold medal and NCAA championship.
Who is Mike Krzyzewski?
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This is the name of the golly-gee guy from Cracking the Code. He was a leading researcher from MIT on the public team.
Who is Eric Lander?
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Mutations in the HEXA gene cause which disease?
What is Tay Sachs?
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Pompe disease is caused by a buildup of this complex sugar in the lysosome.
What is glycogen?
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This method involves breaking the genome into millions of small strands, reading the base pairs of the small strands, then assembling them together using computer programs.
What is shotgun sequencing?
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These two men were the top earning athletes in the world. The American brought in over $90 million last year while the Swiss came in second with almost $62 million.
Who are Tiger Woods and Roger Federer.
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In the video Ghost in Your Genes, a severely obese boy with this syndrome was shown swimming. The syndrome is caused by a deletion of a set of genes on chromosome 15 when you inherit it from your father.
What is Prader-Willi Syndrome?
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Trisomy 18 is also known as this.
What is Edwards syndrome?
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In a pedigree, "AMA" is used to denote this.
What is advanced maternal age?
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