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Describe what genes are and explain what makes a disease genetic?
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∙ 14y ago
genes are what make up your DNA. each gene has two alleles, and whether those alleles are dominant or recessive determines what trait you get. Every trait has at least on gene coding for it, and some have more. a disease is genetic when there is a gene coding for it, as opposed to just a mutation or something environmental causing it.
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Would a disease caused by exposure to chemicals be considered a genetic trait?
A genetic trait is passed on through the genes. Which means that disease from exposure to chemicals is not inherited.
Why is it difficult to cure a human genetic disorder?
It would require changing a person's genes. We can't do that. Yet. Until we do, the genes that gave you the disease will get passed to your children, and THEIR children, etc.
Identify a disease or disorder and explain hoe it might be controlled by genetic engineering?
Cancer is a disease that might be controlled by genetic engineering by adding a type of gene into the person that stops the cancer.
The genes an organism has or its genetic constitution?
The genes present in an organism's body or its genetic makeup is referred to as the genotype.
Is it true or false that cystic fibrosis is a transmittable disease in the lungs?
Cystic Fibrosis is not contagouse because it is a genetic dissorder (you can only have it if you have the genes that give people CF)
How do you get a genetic disease in the first place?
through your genes.....!
What is used to describe a trait that is controlled by many genes?
A genetic trait.
If a person has a genetic disease how many unhealthy genes must that person have?
1
Would a disease caused by exposure to chemicals be considered a genetic trait?
A genetic trait is passed on through the genes. Which means that disease from exposure to chemicals is not inherited.
What makes a disease genetic?
A genetic desiese is your chromosomes or genes aren't how they are supposed to be. For example if someone has 47 chromosomes instead of 46 then they have a genetic disorder.
Are cereals the cause of migraine?
Migraine is a genetic neurological disease. The cause of Migraine is in the genes.
Is colour blindness an infecious disease like the common cold or influenza?
No. It is usually a genetic disease that is caused by the genes which were inherited.
What is the difference between a gene and a genetic?
A gene is a unit of nucleic acid which codes for some trait or which in some way regulates the expression of other genes. The word genetic is an adjective; it describes something that is related to genes, for example, a genetic disease, a genetic test, etc.
How does genetic affect cardiovascular disease?
Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do for good health if your family has bad genes.
How a a person can get the asthma disease?
Through genetic genes or develop it through child or adult hood :D
Is it true carriers of genetic diseases who do not have the disease themselves have recessive genes for the disorder?
Yes. They can pass it on to their offspring.
An abnormal condition that a person inherits through genes or chromosomes is a?
An abnormal condition that a person inherits through the chromosomes or genes is a genetic disorder.
