Familial Hypercholesterolemia Check (FH)

After reading through the Comic Book known as Buddy’s FH adventure, which of the following is a fact you know about FH?

• FH is a genetic disorder.

• FH is a type of comic book.

• FH stands for 'Friendly Heroes.'

• FH is a fictional character.

In FH, the body has a lot of this type of cholesterol build up and block arteries

• HDL

• LDL

Draw a Punnett square that illustrates the likelihood that a man who is homozygous dominant with FH and a woman who is unaffected would have a child with FH. Show and explain your work. Use the letter “F” to designate your alleles.

• 100% chance of having a child with FH

• 50% chance of having a child with FH

• 25% chance of having a child with FH

• 0% chance of having a child with FH

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Draw a Punnett square that illustrates the likelihood that a man who is heterozygous with FH and a woman who is heterozygous with FH would have a child with FH. Use the letter “F” to designate your alleles.

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 100%

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

The chances of having FH in adults is around 1 in ...

• 50

• 100

• 200

• 250

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

If you have the genotype FF, you would...

• be affected with FH

• be normal

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

If you have the genotype Ff, you would...

• be affected with FH

• be normal

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

If you have the genotype ff, you would...

• be affected with FH

• be normal

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

FH is what type of genetic disorder?

• dominant

• recessive

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which of the following would be a treatment for FH?

• insulin

• statins

• glucagon

• none of the above