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Why is the sickle cell disease named that?
Because the condition causes the red blood cells to become sickle shaped rather than round.
What are abnormal crescent shaped BLOOD cell?
Sickle cells. Sickle cell anemia is the disease characterized by sickle-shaped blood cells.
The What inherited disease in which red blood cells are sickle shaped instead of disc shaped is called?
Sickle-cell anemia.
What is the name for sickle shaped?
Crescent.
What genetic disorder results in abnormally shaped blood?
Spherocytosis
Sickle shaped moon beginning with f?
The word is falcate. It means curved like a sickle.
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 an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individuals red blood cells are sickle shaped rather than disked - shaped?
Sickle-cell anemia
What is the causative agent of sickle cell?
Sickle cell disease is caused when someone inherits sickle shaped hemoglobin. It is a disease that can be managed, but not cured.
What is a inherited autosomal recessive disorder of the blood in which an individual's red blood cells are sickle-shaped rather than disk-shaped?
C. Sickle-cell anemia
Why are red blood cells sickle shaped in a person with sickle cell disease?
Sickle 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.
Compare the normal allele for hemoglobin with the sickle cell allele How does this difference affect the persons red blood cells?
The amino acid sequence of the sickle cell allele for hemoglobin varies from the normal allele for hemoglobin by one amino acid. The sickle cell allele for hemoglobin has valine instead of glutamic acid. When the oxygen level of the blood decreases, the hemoglobin molecules come out of solution, stick together, and form long chains that cause the red blood cells to become sickle shaped.
