How are hereditary disease passed from one another?

Answer 1

genetic diseases are passed through by generaions because the parents of a child may have x or Y(lets juse say Y is a genetic deisease) in their genes. Y would be the dominant trait so it would make the child have that disease. Sometimes the parents don't have the disease but they can still pass it to their children if they have the genes for it. So really it's because of how our ressesive and dominant traits work.

Tori age 12 Surry Maine

Answer 2

Genetic diseases are diseases which are passed from parents to offspring.

Some infectious disease such as HIV, can be passed on at birth due to exchange of fluids between mother and child during birth, but this does not always happen.

In response to the last answer, the causes of autism are unknown, but some cases of autism appear to have a genetic component and thus offspring might have a slightly high chance to getting autism. Please do give your child vaccines during their toddler age. Not one scientific study been able to link vaccination to autism or any disease for that matter. In fact, childhood vaccinations are probably the most significant contributor to our increased life expectancy and decrease Infant Mortality Rate. As childhood vaccination levels in the United States have approached all-time highs, diseases and death from preventable diseases have approached record lows. To prevent complications from vaccination, try spacing out the vaccinations your child receives.

Answer 3

The parents themselves might not have the disease but hey carry it or not have it at all. Take Cystic Fibrosis for example, you can have a parent who isn't a carrier so says that's cc or a Carrier, Cc, so they don't have the disease but they have the genes for it and can pass it on. The C means the gene is dominant, so more than the other in a sense whereas the c means it is recessive and wont really come through. The child will have a 75% chance of not being a carrier.

cc x Cc

these parents cannot have a child with the disease because their is only one gene from the carrying parent. For a child to get the disease, the parents have to both be carriers so Cc

Cc x Cc

the chances are

CC, Cc, Cc, cc so there is a 25% chance a child will have the disease, 25 % that they wont have it or wont be a carrier and a 50% chance that the child will carry but not have the disease.

To sum it up, parents may not have the disease themselves but may carry it and therefore can pass it onto their child.

Hope this helped!!!

Answer 4

In order for a hereditary disease to be transmitted from parents to offspring, one or both parents must carry the gene/s that cause the disease in their sex cells (sperm and egg cells) that unite to form the offspring.

Answer 5

You have genes in your chromosomes, which carry the information of the so called hereditary diseases. The same genes may or may not be carried to next generation only.

Answer 6

yes