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Genetic disorders |
Harmful effects produced by inherited mutations |
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genetic counseling |
Form of medical guidance that informs people about genetic problems that could affect them or their offspring |
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Gene therapy |
Connect certain recessive genetic disorders by replacing defective genes with copies of healthy ones |
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autosomes |
Why do you chromosome non-sex chromosomes humans have 22 pairs |
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Sex chromosome |
Chromosome that determine sex of child humans have one pair |
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Who hypothesize the theory of sex linked in Heritance |
Thomas hunt Morgan |
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What chromosome are these traits usually carried on and why |
Most on X chromosome because Y is smaller and carries less information -no known sex linked traits on Y |
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In the organism he used for his experiments |
Fruit flies |
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What tree did he associate with sex linkage |
Fruit fly Eye color |
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How did the scientist differ from the work of the father of genetics |
Thomas had sex linked traits (gender) Mendel had just treats he compared |
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Complete dominance an example |
Dominant trait that prevents expression of recessive example cystic fibrosis |
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Sex linked definitions |
Traits that are determined based on the sex of an organism |
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Sex linked example |
XRY & XRXr |
