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What is a karyotype and how many chromosomes are in a normal human karyotype?
Which chromosomes are in a human egg cell? A human sperm cell?
What do the symbols in a pedigree mean? Circle/square, shaded/half-shaded/unshaded?
What is a pedigree used for?
Which of the diseases covered in the chapter are caused by a dominant allele? A recessive
allele?
How do the alleles for blood type work? How does this affect blood transfusions?
What is sickle cell disease and what causes it?
What is colorblindness and how is it inherited?
What is a Barr body? How does it relate to X chromosomes
What is nondisjunction? What does it involve?
What are conditions involving errors in the X chromosome?
What is DNA fingerprinting and how does it work?
What is the Human Genome project? How was the human genome sequenced?
What is gene therapy and how would you know if it is successful?
What are autosomes?
What is a carrier?
Why are recessive x-linked alleles always expressed in males (even if they have only one copy)?
What is the probability of an individual inheriting a disorder – dominant, recessive, sex-linked?
Know what a karyotype is!
Know what a pedigree is and how to produce one?