Across
- 3. These are disorders in humans that are polygenic & influenced by the environment
- 6. this allele for melanin is active only in lower temperatures
- 8. Disorders that are based on your genes. Examples include Down Syndrome, PKU, & Hemophilia
- 13. Chromosome 7
- 14. These recessive disorders are caused by the inheritance of two mutated recessive alleles on the autosomes
- 15. Disease that causes bones to break easily due to to them being imperfectly formed or an inadequate amount of bone collagen
Down
- 1. A rare fatal genetic condition characterized by an appearance of accelerated aging in children
- 2. Transport protein deficiency in the chloride ion channel
- 4. Most commonly referred to as heart disease, children with progeria die at an average age of 13 because of this
- 5. These traits appear when a phenotype is influenced by genes & the environment
- 7. Chromosome 4
- 9. A neurological disease that regards the degeneration of the brain region which controls thinking, emotion, & movement
- 10. Chromosome 11
- 11. This disease results from an abnormal hemoglobin in red blood cells
- 12. These tests are available that identify carriers of mutated genes