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    Turners Syndrome, a genetic condition which is only found in females, affects approximately 1 in every 2,500 women, therefore there is a 0.0004 chance that your child will be born with this deformity. (Judith L. Ross, MD, 2017) A woman usually has two sex chromosomes (XX) however if you are born with Turners Syndrome that means one of these chromosomes is abnormal or missing. You may discover you have this condition; before birth, at birth or during the teenage years of your life. (Department of…

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    Turner Syndrome “Turner syndrome is a medical disorder that affects about a in every 2,500 girls.” Says Teens Health. Many people today are effected by genetic diseases, “a genetic disease is a disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual’s DNA.” says Genetic Science Learning Center. A genetic disorder is not inherited but instead caused by a mutations in an individual’s DNA. These diseases shape who people are and affect them and the people around them their whole lives. There…

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    One very rare syndrome that affects girls and women is Turner Syndrome. Turner syndrome also known as Ullrich-Turner syndrome, gonadal digenesis, and 45,X, is a chromosomal condition that happens to girls and women. It caused because there is either a complete or partial absence of the second sex chromosome. It is known to occur when all or part of the X chromosome is lost before or soon after the time of conception. Humans have 46 chromosomes containing all of a person’s genes and DNA and they…

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    diagnosed with a syndrome that could have been found close to 10 years ago. Turner syndrome affects "1 in 2,500 every newborn girl," in the U.S. Turner syndrome is when a female has one working X-chromosome and one is altered or missing. The many symptoms include short stature, webbed neck and lymphedema, which is swelling of the hands and feet. To find out if you or a female you know has turner syndrome testing includes a lab test of your blood. Some people with turner syndrome can be…

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    Briefly explain this test. What is the positive test for this disease? Turner Syndrome is a rather unusual chromosomal disorder affecting females which was uncovered by Dr. Henry Turner in 1938 (Saikia, Sarma, & Yadav, 2017). The only way to be positively diagnosed with Turner Syndrome is by performing karyotyping to analyze a client’s chromosomes in a blood sample (Saikia, Sarma, & Yadav, 2017). The key diagnosis of this syndrome is having the whole or a portion of the second XX female…

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    I would like to discuss a chromosomal disorder called Turner Syndrome 1 in 2,500 females are born with Turner Syndrome. It is a chromosomal disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome or part of one. It can be diagnosed before birth, during infancy or in early childhood. Some of the developmental issues of this disease will…

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    Over many years of great athletes in the NFL,there have been many of questions of how severe or how the physical game play impact the player’s bodies the shiny lights and misty fog on game days what are you truly left with headaches on top of confusion bouts of rage and depression are somethings a few of the NFL retired players when the lights are off and the skies are clear retirees are left with many unanswered question that they don’t have A journal released by John J. Medina PhD.…

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    This location serves the purpose of providing a backdrop that closely resembles the reality of the time period thus enhancing the story's believability. But it also symbolizes the state of the country and the irony in America's moral values. America was founded on the moral ideas of the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all men, and demanded and fought for those rights for mankind. Many of these revolutionary men have hailed of Virginia, " She has been…

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    The symbolic approach to ritual was first written about by Victor Turner (1920-1983), who studied the Ndembu tribe of Zambia, and studied their use of symbols in rituals and rites of passage. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was an American anthropologist whose largest and most important works were on the Balinese cockfights in Indonesia, and defined culture as a web of ideas expressed in symbols, that can have multiple meanings. Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard that…

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    Nat Turner Research Paper

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    Nat Turner was born a slave in a Virginia plantation owned by Benjamin Turner. He was very religious and believed that when he was little, he talked about events that had occurred before his birth. He claimed that he received divine visions and that god had spoken to him. According to Turner, the insurrection was god’s will that he was prophesized to carry out. These murders were carried out to terrorize whites, yet abolitionists still supported their actions, little did they know that the men…

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