JieJer Patrick, Tyler Butler
Chapter 2
1.) Priya has just lost her mother to an illness called Huntington's disease. It was hard for Priya to watch her mother die. First her mother had strange changes of mood. Then her arms and legs began twitching. Soon she couldn't talk or control her movements. In the end, she was totally bedridden and could barely get food down without choking.
2.) I would get tested for the disease because if i don’t do anything sooner i would probably die without getting treatment for the disease. This is the best decision to take.
3) If priya is tested and found to have the disease her future daughter and so on should know so they can be prepared.
4)The pros is that Priya has a treatment and she probably won't end up like her mother. If she gets this treatment she might live longer and also might live a happy life. The cons is that she will have to live with the disease for the rest of his life.
Stethoscope genetic counseling-the counseling of individuals with established or potential genetic problems, concerned with inheritance patterns and risks to future offspring
Mutations-the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes.
Human genome project-is an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.
disorder-disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of.
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