Deck 4 (slides 17-21) Flashcards
(20 cards)
Treatment for CF involves breathing in mist to _____ out mucus in the lungs.
Thin
Treatment for CF also involves ________ therapy to break up mucus in the lungs.
Physical
Treatment for CF also involves a special _______.
Diet
Even with treatment, most CF patients _____ by early adulthood from serious ______ infections.
Die, lung
A ____-dominant autosomal disorder is _______ cell disease (______ cell anemia).
Co, sickle, sickle
Sickle Cell disease is the most common genetic disorder in ________ _________.
African Americans
Sickle Cell disease is characterized by the bent and twisted shape of ______ blood cells.
Red
These red blood cells tend to get _______ in capillaries.
Stuck
This lack of blood flow causes ________ weakness and ________ to the brain, heart, and spleen; in some cases it may be fatal.
Physical, damage, fatal
Sickle Cell disease is caused by a mutation to the gene for the protein ___________.
Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin is the protein responsible for carrying _________ in red blood cells.
Oxygen
The abnormal hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to become ________ shaped under conditions of low oxygen.
Sickle
The mutated gene differs from the normal gene in _____ chanted nitrogen base (_______ mutation).
1, point
This results in the change of just ____ amino acid in the hemoglobin protein.
1
This mutated gene can be traced back to ________.
Africa
Having one normal gene and one mutated gene provides immunity to _________ (a serious parasitic disease that infects red blood cells and is common to Africa); this person ______ ______ have sickle cell disease either.
Malaria, does not
A ___________ autosomal disorder is Huntington’s Disease.
Dominant
Symptoms of Huntington’s Disease usually appear in _______ age and results in _______.
Middle, death
Huntington Disease (HD) is a disorder affecting nerve cells in the ______.
Brain
A person with Huntington’s Disease gradually ______ all control of their mental and physical abilities.
Loses
