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What disease are you immune to if you are heterozygous for sickle cell disease?
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How is sickle-cell disease a representation of codominance?
It's not sickle-cell itself, but rather being a heterozygous carrier of the disease. People with one dominant and one recessive allele for the disease are immune to malaria without the crippling effects of having sickle-cell anemia. I don't think that it can even represent codominance, though.
People who are heterozygous for sickle cell disease are generally healthy because of what?
true
Individuals heterozygous for sickle-cell anemia appear normal and are resistant to what disease?
malaria
What is the word for the genetic disorder that causes abnormal hemoglobin is known as?
sickle cell anemia. If you are only heterozygous for this disease it is simply called sickle trait.
How prevalent is the disease sickle cell in the population?
its a very rare disease because you have to be heterozygous to have it! I KNOW I'M CLEVER
The genetic disorder sickle cell disease is an example of heterozygous dominance?
Yes. Heterozygous dominance offers a way to preserve the mutated allele.
Are people with Sickle cell disease immune to west nile virus?
yes they are
How are people that are heterozygous for sickle cell disease generally healthy?
because ur moma said so
What genetic disorder can be beneficial in its heterozygous form?
Sickle Cell Anemia, in it's heterozygous form it does not present as the disease and it gives the carrier resistance to malaria.
What is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood where an individuals red blood cells are sickle shaped rather than disk shaped?
C. Sickle-cell anemia
What is the advantage of being heterozygous for the sickle cell allele?
Sickle cell trait carries a lower risk of serious malarial disease, without the signs and symptoms of sickle-cell anemia.
What is the genotype for sickle cell anemia?
homozygous recessive (rr) & Heterozygous (Rr) homozygous recessive (rr) & Heterozygous (Rr)
