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Tay-Sachs disease is a human?
Tay-Sachs disease is a human genetic disorder.
What are the characteristics of a genetic disease?
A genetic disease is a disease that was either passed onto you and/or your family is known to get that disease. An example of a genetic disease would be CF (Cystic Fibrosis). It occurs when a cell changes it's genetic information.
Is Tay Sachs disease contagious?
No, it is a very rare genetic disease that is spread through reproduction and not by human-to-human contact.
A example of a homosygous genetic disorder?
Cystic Fibrosis is a recessive homozygous genetic disease
What a human genetic disorder caused by a dominant gene is?
Huntington disease
What is a none communicable disease?
A disease that can't be passed to a healthy individual from an infected individual. For example a genetic disease.
What is a human genetic disorder caused by a dominant gene is?
One example is Huntington's Disease. Carried on a dominant gene, it causes deterioration of the central nervous system, affecting movement, swallowing, personality, etc.
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.
This pedigree is for a human genetic disease called sickle cell anemia. Assuming that the allele for the disease is recessive how many of the females shown have the disease?
None. =]
Is Treatment of genetic disease the same as genetic treatment of disease?
no but as I see it treatment of genetic disease is treating a genetic problem as a genetic treatment of a disease is using genetics to stop a certain disease that can be treated with genetics
What is one thing that the Human Genome Project has taught us?
that all genetic disease is curable
Is chickenpox genetic?
Chickenpox is an infectious disease, not a genetic disease
