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Chromosomal Abnormalities Flashcards

1
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Type of myxoploidy that came from the same zygote

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Mosaicism

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2
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Causes of chromosomal abnormality

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  • misrepair in broken chromosome
  • improper recombination
  • malsegregation during mitosis and meiosis
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3
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Cause by Abnormal fertilization. Abnormal event during early embryo

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Constitutional abnormalities

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4
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Not all cells are affected

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Acquired or somatic abnormalities

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7
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Complete sets of chromosomes. Good set

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Euploid

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8
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Multiple cell line coming from different zygote

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Chimerism

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9
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Missing pair of homologs

. Chromosome 6

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Nullisomy

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10
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One chromosome are missing

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Monosomy

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11
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Extra chromosome

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Trisomy

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12
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Example of polyploidy

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Mosaic triploidy

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13
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All cells are affected

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Constitutional abnormalities

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14
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Failure of paired chromosome to separate during anaphase 1

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Nondysjunction

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15
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Nondysjunction in meiosis

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Trisomic

Monosomic

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16
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Inverted segment is on the long or short arm. Do not involve the centromere

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Paracentric

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18
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Nondysjunction in mitosis

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Mosaicism

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19
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Result of a delayed movement during anaphase

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Anaphase lag

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20
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This substance recognize and repair broken chromosome ends

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Enzymes

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21
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Prevent cells with unpaired chromosome breaks from entering mitosis

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Cell cycle checkpoint mechanism

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22
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An extra chromosomal segment within the same homologous chromosomes

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Duplication

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23
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Example of duplication wherein chromosome 17 duplicates

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Charcot marie tooth disease type 1A

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24
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Ring chromosome 13&14

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Mental retardation

Dysmorphic facial features

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25
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Portion of the chromosome has broken off turned upside down and reattached

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Inversions

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26
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Loss of a segment of a chromosome

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Deletion

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27
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Telomere is missing

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Terminal deletion

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29
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Two arms have fused together to form a ring

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Ring chromosome

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30
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Ring chromosome 20

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Epilepsy

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31
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Ring X chromosome

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Turner syndrome

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32
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What causes ring chromosome

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Deletion of two telomeres

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33
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Dense staining structure seen in the nuclei of a female mammals

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Barr body

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34
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Missing or extra chromosome

Not a good set

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Aneuploidy

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35
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Structural rearrangement involving 2 non homologous chromosomes

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Translocation

36
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Two segments from two different chromosome have been exchanged

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Reciprocal translocation

37
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Involves reciprocal transfer of the long arms of two acrocentric chromosome

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Robertsonian translocation

38
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Inactivated X chromosome

39
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Diagram for a family tree

40
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Shape for male? Female? Unknown?

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Male-square
Female-circle
Unknown-diamond

41
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Parents are connected via

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Horizontal lines

42
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Parents to offspring

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Vertical line

43
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Connect siblings

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Sibship line

44
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Arrangement of siblings

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Left to right

Oldest to youngest

45
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Siblings are numbered using

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Arabic numerical

46
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Generation are numbered using

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Roman numerals

47
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Horizontal line with diagonal line

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Monozygotic or identical twin

48
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Diagonal line without horizontal

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Dizygotic or fraternal twins

49
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Question trait truly expressed by the individual

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Fully shades

50
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Half filled

51
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Adopted child

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Broken lines

52
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Single abnormal allele is sufficient to cause disease despite the presence of normal allele

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Autosomal dominant disease

53
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Autosomal dominant trait with complete penetrance

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Achondroplasia

54
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Achondroplasia is the most common cause of?

55
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Negative regulatory effect of bone growth

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Fibroblast growth factor receptor gene 3

56
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Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy

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Charcot Marie tooth disease

57
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CMT type 1a is defect in what chromosome?

58
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Individual who has inherited two abnormal alleles at a given locus by receiving one mutant allele from each carrier parents

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Autosomal recessive disease

59
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Percentage of hereditary if both parents are carriers

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25% normal
50% carrier
25% affected

60
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Most common fatal autosomal recessive disorder in caucasian population

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Cystic fibrosis

61
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A multisystem disorder affecting the cells that produce mucus, sweat, saliva and digestive juices

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Cystic fibrosis

62
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CF gene is located in

63
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Characterized by excess iron deposition in otherwise healthy tissue

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Hereditary hemochromatosis

64
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Regulates the amount of iron absorbed from food

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Hemochromatosis type 1 gene

65
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Mutant allele resides on the X chromosome

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X linked disease

66
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Carriers of X linked disease with one normal and one mutant but typically not affected

67
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Received mutant allele from the mothers

68
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Carrier female of X linked disease has?

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25% transmitting normal allele to son
25% affected son
25% transmitting normal allele to daughter
25% affected daughter

69
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An X linked recessive bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of factor VIII

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Hemophilia A

70
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Gene in hemophilia A is located in

71
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Characterized by progressive skeletal muscle wasting

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

72
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Chromosome in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

73
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One of the most common inherited from mental retardation

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fragile X syndrome

74
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Expansion of CGG repeats

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Fragile x syndrome

75
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Full mutations in fragile x

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> 200 CGG repeats

76
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Chromosome has lost one of its arms and this arm is replaced with an exact copy of a chromosome segment including the centromere

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Isochromosome

77
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Ring chromosome 15

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Mental retardation
Dwarfism
Microcephaly

78
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Resulting to invisible alteration in chromosomes

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Chromosomal abnormality

80
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Breaks occur in both short and long arms. Inverted segment include the centromere

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Pericentric

81
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Multiple chromosome set.

Abnormal genetic event

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Polyploidy

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