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Why are red blood cells sickle shaped in a person with sickle cell disease?
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∙ 12y ago
Josefa Bergnaum
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∙ 12y agoSickle cell is common in people from tropical areas where malaria is prevalent. Malaria can not survive on blood cells that are sickle shaped, so when populations were being killed off by malaria, those with sickle cell were surviving and passing on the sickle cell gene.
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∙ 12y agoPoint mutation at Valene amino acid renders the portion of the hemoglobin chain hydrophobic.
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What are abnormal crescent shaped BLOOD cell?
Sickle cells. Sickle cell anemia is the disease characterized by sickle-shaped blood cells.
What genetic disorder results in abnormally shaped blood?
Spherocytosis
The What inherited disease in which red blood cells are sickle shaped instead of disc shaped is called?
Sickle-cell anemia.
What genetic disorders results in abnormally shaped blood cells?
Spherocytosis
What is sickled cells?
a person who receiver traits from anothr karyotype
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 sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell anemia is a disease passed down through families in which red blood cells form an abnormal crescent shape. It is also called sickle cell anemia.
Why is the sickle cell disease named that?
Because the condition causes the red blood cells to become sickle shaped rather than round.
Which condition is characterize by abnormally shaped red blood cells?
One such condition is sickle cell disease.
What is description of sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell disease is commonly referred to as sickle cell anaemia, or drepanocytosis. The blood cells that are normally round, flat, disks, are instead shaped in a tiny curved sickle shape, hence the name. The other major difference between the blood cells is the sickle shape is dramatically more rigid than healthy cells. This major difference can lead to problems clotting or blocking blood vessels in the body. There are a few distinct versions of having sickle cell disease, that are mostly distinct by the different genes that the person is carrying.
What is the disease called in which red blood cells are abnormally shaped causing them to clog blood vessels?
The most common disease for this is sickle-cell anemia and also pernicious anemia.
Is sickle cell disease a blood cancer?
No, sickle cell disease is not cancerous.
