Week 2 Crossword Flashcards
What is the study of the incidence and population distribution of disease called?
Epidemiology
Okazaki fragments take part in which process to do with DNA?
Replication
Aetiology is the study of what aspect of disease?
Cause
Most common type of autopsy?
Coroners
A reduction in the number of blood cells?
Cytopenia
What syndrome, inherited as an autosomal dominant, can present with dislocation of the lens of the eye?
Marfan’s Syndrome
A condition that is encountered by the haematologist where the patients could present with bleeding into joints?
Haemophilia
What prefix is used to denote a change from one state to another?
Meta
A unit of chromatin, comprising about 200 bp of DNA wound around a histone core?
Nucleosome
What term is used to refer to increasing severity of an inherited disease as it passes down successive generations?
Anticipation
An evolutionary remnant, in the form of a DNA sequence that resembles a gene elsewhere in the genome, but has mutations that appear to render it inactive?
Pseudogene
The abnormal development or degeneration of a tissue?
Dystrophy
The part of a gene whose sequence is represented in the mature mRNA?
Exon
An aspect of family structure that increases the risk of autosomal recessive disease?
Consanguinity
A malignant epithelial tumour?
Carcinoma
