Sickle Cell
This is the inheritance pattern for sickle cell.
What is autosomal recessive?
This is the inheritance pattern of FH
What is autosomal dominant?
Term used for the buildup of plaque in arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
This type of diabetes involves the pancreas not producing insulin
What is type 1 diabetes?
This medicine is prescribed to people dealing with bacterial infections
What is an antibiotic?
This is the aspect of the cell that is affected by sickle cell disease
What is the shape of the cell?
FH is a disease that causes abnormally high levels of this lipid.
What is cholesterol
This disease is characterized by a blockage of blood flow to the heart, resulting in death of heart muscle
What is myocardial infarction?
This type of diabetes is characterized by the cells not responding to insulin that is produced
What is type 2 diabetes?
This type of medicine is a weakened or dead version of a pathogen designed to stimulate the immune system
What is a vaccine
If two parents are both carriers of sickle cell and have a child, this is the probability the child will have sickle cell.
What is 25%
This type of cholesterol is responsible for transporting cholesterol to the cells
What is LDL?
This disease is characterized by a stiffening and narrowing of the aortic valve
What is aortic valve stenosis?
Glucose regulation is this type of feedback loop
What is a negative feedback loop?
A toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body
What is an antigen?
Sickle cell is caused by this type of mutation in the DNA sequence
What is a substitution mutation?
This type of cholesterol is responsible for removing excess cholesterol from the blood stream
What is HDL?
A disease characterized by a hole in the wall between the two ventricles
What is ventricular septal defect?
When glucose levels are too low, this type of hormone is released by the pancreas
What is glucagon?
A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen.
What is an antibody?
This is the specific amino acid in hemoglobin that is affected by a sickle cell mutation.
What is the Beta-Chain?
This type of drug is prescribed to help treat high cholesterol
What is statin drug?
A small mesh tube typically used to hold open passages in the body, such as weak or narrowed blood vessels
This type of test is used to measure blood glucose levels and help to diagnose potential diabetes
What is Hemoglobin A1C test?
A component of the bacterial cell wall that determines what type of antibiotic we can use on a bacteria
What is peptidoglycan?