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King of genetics

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Medel

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Marfans syndrome

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Problems with connective tissue (arms hang below knees)

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If colors mix like red and white

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Incomplete dominance

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If it isn’t mixed colors but one trait isn’t dominant over another

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Co dominance

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Epistasis

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One gene masks another gene

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Polygenic inheritance

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If you have one extreme mixed with another. Super black with really white. You usually get somewhere in the middle

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Muscular dystrophy

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Weakened muscle tissue, missing muscle protein called dystrophin

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Achondroplasia

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Midget syndrome. Dominant disorder but most everyone is homozygous recessive

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Polydactyl

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Extra fingers toes, dominant disorder 99.99% don’t have it

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Non disjunction

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When the crossing over fails

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What’s worse nondisjunction in mitosis or mieosis

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Mieosis

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Edwards syndrome

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Most babies are female mentally retarded

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Patau syndrome

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Problem with chromosome 13. Infection in the brain

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Euploidy

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Have the correct amount of chromosomes in the body

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Turner syndrome

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No extra X chromosome, females are fertile, live a normal life

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Monosomy disease.

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disease that you can survive normally with

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Klinefelters syndrome

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Xxy male. This person has one Barr body X chromosome. These men do not go through puberty

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Jacob’s syndrome

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Xyy taller than average males. Very aggressive

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What are worse autosomal problems and sex chromosomes

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Autosomal by far

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Meta females

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Xxx 2 Barr bodies. No really problems

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Cri du chat

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Larnyx doesn’t form. Mentally retarded. Deletion. Mentally retarded

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A gene that’s on a homologous chromosome one allele is silenced and the other is expressed

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Genomic imprinting

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Inherit abnormal chromosome from their father. Never stop eating

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Prader willi

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Inherit abnormal chromosome from their mother. Happy puppet

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Angelman syndrome.

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Problem with the tip of the X chromosome

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Fragile x syndrome

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Polyploidy

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More than 2 sets of chromosomes

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Are plants aloud to be polyploidy?

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Yes

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Is it bad for humans to be polyploidy?

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Only if there is an odd set

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Complete deleting of a part of a chromosome

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Deletion

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Can repeat a section of a chromosome

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Duplication

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Switches position of a chromosome

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Inversion

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Moves a segment of another chromosome

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Translocation

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Extranuclear genes

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Found in one circle of DNA.

Example: Mitocondria and chloroplasts

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Cytoplasmic genes

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Color of offspring determined by maternal parent

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