Symptoms
Difference in symptoms between Marfan syndrome and Dwarfism
Marfan syndrome makes you unusually tall while Dwarfism makes you shorter than average
Explain how testing guides treatment
What is you can get the correct treatment or figure out what specifically has to be treated
Define Hemophilia
(BONUS: Is it more common in males or females?)
What is a disease that affects blood clotting, causing injuries to be much worse?
BONUS: Males
Name one common treatment.
Medication, diet changes, exercise, ect.
Define gene
What is a unit of heredity?
2 symptoms of type one diabetes
Low blood pressure and high blood sugar
Testing is used to _______
What is predict or check for hereditary diseases
Define Familial Hypercholesterolemia
What is a disease that causes high cholesterol levels from birth and heart rhythm problems?
The name for a treatment that involves your body
Physical therapy
Define mutation
What is a change in DNA?
Symptoms of Huntingtons diease
Death, limited and painful movement, reduced thinking capacity
True or False: family or history review is a form of testing
What is True
Define Retinitis Pigmentosa
What is a disease that causes night vision problems and progressive vision loss?
A treatment used for removing or fixing something in your body.
Surgery
Define carrier
What is a person with the disease's gene who doesn't express the gene
Symptoms of hemophilia
Excessive bleeding, death, unable to clot blood
True or False: It is possible to test negative for a disease but later test positive
What is True?
Define Type 1 Diabetes
What is a disease that causes the body to not be able to make insulin properly?
Name multiple changes one might need to make to treat a disease
What are lifestyle changes Ex: Diet, sleeping, activities, activeness
Define genetic counseling
What is expert guidance?
Symptoms of Tree mans diseases
Bark like lamentations, limited movement, death
Name four kinds of hereditary testing (answers may vary)
What are blood, saliva, gene changes, mucus, and ect.
Define Huntington's disease
Who can provide information from experience?
Support groups, others who have experience with the disease
Define inheritance
What is how traits pass down in families?