Deck 4 (slides 17-21) Flashcards
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
