The likelihood of the child getting Farber’s is twenty five percent; there is a fifty percent chance that the child will carry the defective gene with no symptoms, a carrier. Farber’s has no known cure, but there is research for a cure in progress. References "Farber's Disease Information Page." National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). 23 Apr.
* Question 1 4 out of 4 points | | | A male is heterozygous for the trait that produces freckles on the skin, and he has freckles. If he marries a woman who is also heterozygous for freckles, ______ percent of their children will be freckled and __________ percent of their children will be heterozygous.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | 75% freckled, 50% heterozygous | | | | | * Question 2 4 out of 4 points | | | In humans, having dimples in the cheeks is a dominant trait. If a child has dimples but only one of her parents does, what are the genotypes of her parents?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | one parent must be dd, the other parent could be either Dd or DD | | | | | * Question 3 4 out of 4 points | | | _________ occurs when 50% of a protein produces a different phenotype than that produced by 100% or 0% of the protein.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Incomplete dominance | | | | | * Question 4 4 out of 4 points | | | Which of these is NOT a reason that Mendel used pea plants as a model to study inheritance?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | They cannot self-fertilize. | | | | | * Question 5 4 out of 4 points | | | The two-factor crosses performed by Mendel support the observation thatAnswer | | | | | Selected Answer: | alleles for a given trait are distributed randomly among an individual's gametes independent of the alleles for other traits. | | | | | * Question 6 4 out of 4 points | | | A couple has five sons.
Because of the way the disease is inherited, it is much more likely for a male to obtain the disease because they have only one X chromosome, whereas females have two so it would be more difficult for them to receive it on both of their chromosomes. According to the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, more than half of the cases of Duchenne disorder are inherited from the mother. This is because it is likely for a mother to be a carrier by the gene, but they are not typically affected by the disorder. Looking at it that way, the son of a carrier has a fifty-fifty chance of being affected while the daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier alone. According to the same source, quite a small amount of female carriers experience a very small degree of muscle weakness
" Alzheimer's Disease: A Grand-daughter's Voice" When I decided to write this essay, I had to do a little research. I discovered a few things that I did not know. There are about 5.4 million people living with Alzheimer's. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the US and the only cause of death among the top 10 in the US that cannot be prevented or cured. When we hear about Alzheimer’s disease, we usually think of older people, though middle aged people can have an early onset type of this disease.
Statistics show Heartland has a population of 50 percent white, 25 percent African American and 25 percent that is made up of all other nationalities. The job requirement is a high school diploma, which 75 percent of the 50 percent white population has earned, but only 25 percent of the rest of the 50 percent non-white population has earned one. While there is a very big percent difference in the number of whites who have earned their high school diploma when compared to the other races, this does not justify Heartland’s entire cleaning crew being white. This makes it seem as though there is discrimination by the employers based on race, which goes against Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 disparate impact. This information is important, but is not very helpful in considering whether Gelato is in compliance with the Civil Right Act of 1964, because it does not provide us enough to make a valid violation determination because the total number of applicants for each group is not provided in the
(Correct Answer; 620) These results show that the majority of people (9) thought that 620 was the correct answer, whilst 3 people thought it was 375, nobody thought that there were 115 people diagnosed which shows that there is already awareness about this disorder. Our Aim for the end of the campaign is to increase the general knowledge about the amount of people diagnosed with Anorexia. On average, what age range do you think Anorexia normally occurs between? (Correct Answer; 16-17) These results show that 8 out of 12 people believed that Anorexia occurs mainly occurs between 14 to 15 year olds. 0 out of 12 thought that it was 12 to 13 year olds, which is bad because it means that they were unaware that Anorexia can strike at such a young age.
According to Attorney General John Ashcroft “black and Hispanic defendants were less likely at each stage of the department's review process to be subjected to the death penalty than white defendants," The study found that other factors contributed to what appeared to be racial bias. The factors of geography, differences in state laws, and decisions by state prosecutors explain why the majority of defendants facing death row are minorities. “The study also showed that only nine of the ninety four U.S. attorney districts accounted for about forty three percent of all cases that prosecutors called for the death
Since it is known that depression runs in families, researchers have used twin pairs (which one has depression) in order to determine the likelihood of the other twin also having the same disorder (the concordance rate). Research has shown that almost 60% of MZ twins would develop the same bipolar disorder as their co-twin; this is significantly higher than the lifetime risk of developing depression however the concordance rate will never reach 100% as the twins will nearly almost share the same psychosocial experiences so genetics will not be able to provide us with a full explanation of
People who inherit one sickle cell gene and one normal gene have sickle cell trait (SCT). People with SCT usually do not have any of the symptoms of sickle cell disease (SCD), but they can pass the trait on to their children. It is inherited from the parents, there is a 50% chance that a child will inherit the trait, but may not have the disease. People with sickle cell disease (SCD) start to have signs of the disease during the first year of life, usually around 5 months of age. Symptoms and complications of SCD are different for each person and can range from mild to severe.
One-third of the African American women indicated they would be unable to handle the test emotionally, while only 12% of Caucasian women cited this as an important concern. More African American women were also concerned about the confidentiality of genetic test results, 72%, versus 45% of Caucasian women. African American women, women who were less educated, and women who were younger in age were more likely to have more positive beliefs about the benefits of genetic testing. In the final model, education accounted for 1% of the variance in perceived benefits of testing, age for 6%, and race for 4%. Though small, the variance in perceived benefits accounted for by race indicates that African American and Caucasian women have different notions about what genetic testing may mean for them psychologically and socially.