Test 4 Flashcards
Inheritance Patterns
Autosomal Recessive
Autosomal Dominant
Sex linked Recessive
Sex linked Dominant
Autsomal Dominant Disorder
Huntington Disease
Achondroplasia
Huntington’s Disease
autosomal dominant
Progressive degeneration of nerve cells causing muscle spasms, personality disorders, death (10-15 years after onset)
protein huntington has too many glutamines and forms large clumps of proteins in neurons
Achondroplasia
autosomal dominant
common from of dwarfism
short arms and legs, sway back, normal torso and head AA is lethal for embryo
Incomplete Dominance
One allele isn’t dominant over the other
Heterozygote produces an in-between version (snapdragons)
Codominance
Both alleles expressed equally
ex. human blood types- three alleles positive o is recessive
polygenic inheritance (most traits)
trait is governed by more than one set of alleles
range of phenotypes
genes have additive effect
environmental factors effect the expression of genes ex. skin color
nature vs. Nurture
environment plays a role in gene expression
external or internal environment
chromosomal inheritance
23rd- sex chromosome
X can carry genes for other traits
y has very few genes
traits found on sex chromosome
colorblindness, duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, hypophosphotemia
colorblindness
red/green-males have a recessive allele on the x chromosome that does not allow them to see greens and reds
muscular dystrophy
duchenne muscular dystrophy is x linked
wasting away of muscles
waddling gait, toe walking, falls, may appear early
hemophilia
sex linked
bleeders dissease- blood doesn’t clot or clots slowly
due to lack of clotting factor VII
controlled by transfusions of blood and clotting factors
prevalent in European monarchies b/c of Queen Victoria
Dominant x linked disorder
hypophosphotemia- vitamin d resistent rickets, low phosphate in blood, abnormal bone formation, short stature , bowed legs, bone pain, bone deformities (often within first year of life)
correct chromosome number
euploidy
polyploidy-organism has three or more sets of chromosomes
aneuploidy-organism has more or less than normal number of chromosomes
monosomy- 1 of a pair
trisomy- 3 of a chromosome
caused by nondisjunction failure of chromosome to separate in meiosis.
Down Syndrome
short stature, eyelid fold, flat face, stubby fingers, wide gap between 1st and 2nd toes, heart problems, mental retardation
can be discovered in womb by amniocentesis
Turner Syndrome
XO- female only 1 x sterile