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  • Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displaying no symptoms
  • Genetic carrier, a person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displaying no symptoms
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Queen Victoria of England was a carrier of the gene that causes a specific disease. What disease?

Victoria was the first known carrier of haemophilia in the royal line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria#Within_Britain


What is a carrier of an agent capable of causing disease?

A carrier is an individual who harbors an infectious agent but does not show symptoms of the disease themselves. They can unknowingly transmit the agent to others, contributing to the spread of the disease in a population.


What is the difference between carrier of a disease and reservoir host of a disease?

The host doesnt show symptoms and the carrier does


What is a susceptible individual who can harbor a disease called?

This person is called a carrier. Some carriers do not show any signs of the disease but others do (as someone with a cold).


Can you get a disease from eating your own sperm?

No you can't transmit a disease to yourself but you can transmit it to someone else if you are a carrier of a disease . It might. It all depends if the carrier has an STD.


An organism that carries a disease?

carrier


What is the carrier effect in immunology?

A carrier is a person or an animal that shows no signs of having a disease but has the infectious cause and is capable of transmitting the disease to others.


A person with hidden gene for a particular disease?

A person with a hidden gene for a particular disease is commonly called a carrier. This person carries a gene for a disease, however, the disease may not always attack the person's body.


Those who have and transmit the disease organism but do not have symptoms and do not display evisence of the disease?

They are called carrier's.


An individual who has one copy of a recessive autosomal allele that causes disease in the homozygous condition?

They are a carrier of the disease but do not show any symptoms because they have one normal allele that can compensate for the recessive disease-causing allele. If they have children with a partner who is also a carrier, there is a chance their offspring may inherit two copies of the disease-causing allele and develop the disease.


What is a carrier plastic?

A carrier plastic is a disease in a human finger nail. It turns grey and then drops off.


Why are there no carrier states with the dominantly inherited traits?

Everyone who has the genetic error gets the disease, because the bad gene is dominant. There is no such thing as a carrier for a dominant disease. A few dominant genetic diseases like Huntington's disease only cause symptoms later in life, so that people cannot know that they have the disease in early life, but this is not the same as being a carrier: these people actually have the disease.