Genetic Disorders

True or False.  With the genetic disorder known as Down Syndrome, a person's cells have an extra copy of chromosome 21. 

• True

• False

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Hemophilia is a disorder in which a person's blood clots very slowly or not at all?

• True

• False

Syndrome caused by the presence of a third X chromosome

• Down syndrome

• Triple X syndrome

• Apert Syndrome

• Albinism

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Some genetic disorders are caused by changes in the DNA of genes, but some are caused by changes in the structure or number of chromosomes.

• True

• False

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What is a genetic disorder

• Harmful mutation

• Beneficial mutation

• Neutral mutation

• Natural selection

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What can cause a Genentic Disorder?

• mutations in DNA

• tumors in cells

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Genetic disorder that progressively replaces muscle with fat and fibrous tissue leading to muscle wekaness

• Fibromyalgia

• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

• Myasthenia gravis

• Polio

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Trisomy 21; three copies of chromosome 21 instead of 2

• Down Syndrome

• Klinefelter's syndrome

• Turner's syndrome

• Sickle cell disease

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Disease that affects hemoglobin by changing the shape of red blood cell

• down syndrome

• sickle cell disease

• cystic fibrosis

• thalassemia

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Disorder that causes fusion of skull, hands, and feet bones.

• Apert Syndrome

• Albinism

• Angelman Syndrome

• Duchnne Muscular Dystrophy