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Who is gregor mendel? what did he work on? What did his experiments lead to?
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a monk scientist who crossed thousands of pea plants. Led to Mendel's laws of heredity.
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What is a pedigree?
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a primary means of looking at inheritance patterns
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What is carrier testing?
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to determine if an individual is a carrier of a certain disorder
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what is predictive testing?
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people with a strong family history of cancer testing themselves
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what is amniocentisis?
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technique used to detect disorders in a fetus
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All X-linked diseases are what?
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recessive
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Why do X-linked diseases skip generations?
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because mutant alleles can be carried without any effect if a normal allele is also present
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What are some X-linked diseases?
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red-green color blindness, hemophilia, and duchenne muscular dystrophy
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