Genetic Disorders
Resumen
Most of what your genes do passes unnoticed. Occasionally a single faulty instruction, or one chromosome too many, produces an effect large enough to shape a whole life. These are the genetic disorders, and they are among the few places in biology where a family diagram, a fraction and a set of symptoms all describe the same thing. Learn to move between those three descriptions and this topic becomes arithmetic rather than memory.
In this lesson you will meet the three inherited conditions the specification names by example, and you will see why one of them shows up in every generation of a family while another can hide for decades in people who feel completely well. You will then look at a different kind of cause altogether, where nothing is wrong with any individual allele and the problem is simply that a cell finished up with the wrong number of chromosomes. This is also the topic where the two tiers of this course ask for genuinely different things, so the lesson marks that boundary as it goes and shows you the plain wording that scores full marks on the Core Tier paper.
Objetivos
- Some disorders are inherited. Students should be able to interpret data relating to genetic disorders such as polydactyly, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anaemia.
- Some inherited conditions are caused by inheritance of abnormal numbers of chromosomes, eg Down’s Syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.
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- Cystic fibrosis is caused by a recessive allele f. The working allele is F. Which pair of alleles is carried by a carrier of cystic fibrosis? A. FF B. Ff C. ff D. A carrier has no alleles for this gene Answer: B
- Polydactyly is caused by a dominant allele. Which statement is correct? A. A person needs two copies of the allele to have the condition B. A person with one copy of the allele has the condition C. The condition always skips a generation D. Only females can have the condition Answer: B
- How many chromosomes are found in a body cell of a person with Down's syndrome? A. 23 B. 45 C. 46 D. 47 Answer: D
- Two carriers of cystic fibrosis have a child. What is the percentage chance that the child has cystic fibrosis? A. 0% B. 25% C. 50% D. 75% Answer: B
- Which of the following describes the event that leads to Down's syndrome? A. A dominant allele is inherited from one parent B. A recessive allele is inherited from both parents C. A pair of chromosomes fails to separate during meiosis D. A chromosome is lost during mitosis in the adult Answer: C
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