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| something that is caused by an infection |
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| two most common things that cause infection |
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| can cause infection as well |
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cause by mutation in DNA or abnormal chromsome number
-typically inherited
-typically mutation found in all cells of individual |
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| some believe aneuploidy may be cause of cancer, caused by series of mutations in single cell or its offspring |
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| most health problems are mixture of |
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| enviormental influence and genetic influence |
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| a familial history--set diagrams |
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| person who does not suffer from a recessive genetic debilitation, but who carries an allele for it that can be passed along to offspring |
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| genetic disorder caused by a defect located on one any chromosome other than sex chromosome |
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genes that cause them lie on x-chromosomes
-more males than females |
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-genetic disorder that will not exist in presence of functional allele
-child must inherit two defective alleles to have disease |
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| -genetic condition in which a single faulty allele can cause damage |
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| visual image of chromosome set used for detecting chromosomal abnormalities |
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| condition in which one ore more entire set of chromosomes have been added to genome of diploid organism--two sperm in one egg |
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| organism has either more or fewer chromosomes than normally exist in its species full set |
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| failure of homologous chromosomes or siter chromatds to seperate during meiosis |
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many different genes contribute a small part
-require specific combination of alles from many different genes
-enviorment usually important |
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