Genetics and Society Word Scramble
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DEveloped a test for PKU that involved mixing a sample of an infant's blood with bacteria that were unable to synthesize phenylalanine. The cards on which a newborn's blood is collected and stored bears this researchers name | Robert Guthrie |
American researcher; Founded the Eugenics Record Office and was a proponent of eugenic policieds in the U.S | Charles Davenport |
British researcher; developed a biochemical method for determining the sequence of bases in a DNA molecule | Frederick Sanger |
American researcher; developed a means to efficiently copy specific regions of DNA molecules using heat resistant polymerases | Kary Mullis |
British researcher; studied extensive pedigrees of the European royalty and discovered desirable traits tend to run in families | Francis Galton |
Part of a team that discovered the location of the gene responsible for Hubntington's disease by studying pedigrees in a isolated population in Venezuela | Nancy Wexler |
Now serevs as head of the NIH; discovered many genes for human diseases and led government funded efforts to sequence the human genome | Francis Collins |
Options for women with a positive BRCA genetic test include... | Increased cancer screening, Preventative drug therapy, Risk aviodance, Mastectomy |
Huntington's Disease is what kind of inherited disease? | Autosomal Dominant |
PKU is what kind of an inherited disease? | Autosimal Recessive |
Hemophilia A is what kind of an inherited disease? | x-linked recessive |
The production of humilin is made possible through application of... | Recombinant DNA technology |
They cut DNA at specific sequences | Restriction Enzymes |
Comapred to Sanger sequencing, next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are... | Able to generate significantly more sequence data |
PCR is made practival throgh the use of polymerases that... | Are derived from heat tolerant microbes |
When chromosomes fall to separate during meiosis | Non- disjunction |
A small minority of Down syndrome cases are associated with | Chromosomal translocations |
In the US, Europe and among other developed nations, a modern form of eugenics is made possible primarily through | Preimplantation genetic diagnosis |
Organisms genetically engineered to carry and express a gene introduced from another species | Transgenic Organisms |
Imbalance in the number of chromosomes | Aneuploidy |
In the Sanger DNA sequencing methos dideoxy- nucleotides result in... | Termination of a DNA chain synthesized by DNA polymerase |
A genetic disease affecting only sons of affected fathers but never daughters | Y-linked |
Restriction enzymes are used by molecular gebeticists to... | cut DNA fragments at specific sequences |
Used to separate out fragments of DNA by their size | Electrophoresis |
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