Download How many chromosomes does a normal human body cell have

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Q - How many chromosomes does a normal human body cell have?
Q - What does PGD stand for?
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Q – What is the name of a muscle-wasting disorder, which is usually
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inherited by boys from their mother?
Q – What sex is a baby with two X – chromosomes?
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Q - How do doctors stimulate egg production in a woman’s ovaries?
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Q - Which part of a cell holds the DNA?
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Q - What is an allele?
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Q - What does IVF stand for?
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Q - What sex is a baby with one X and one Y – chromosome?
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Q - What do we call a fertilised egg cell?
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Q - True or false:- the sex of a baby is determined by the father’s genes
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Q - What does DNA stand for?
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Q - An early stage in development is called an ………..
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Q - How many chromosomes are there in a human sperm cell?
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Q - True or false:- you can choose the colour of your baby’s eyes using PGD
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Q - What is a carrier?
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Q - Following IVF, how many embryos are normally implanted?
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Q - In the UK, who decides if a couple should be allowed PGD?
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Q - Roughly what percentage of IVF treatments are successful?
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Q - What are gametes?
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Q - Where are fertilised eggs are implanted?
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Q - What is a ‘saviour sibling’?
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Q – What is the name of a genetic disorder which affects cell membranes?
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Q – How many chromosomes are there in a human red blood cell?
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Q - True or False:- fertilisation is when sperm and eggs are mixed together
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Q - What do we call a section of DNA that contains the information for
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Q - In PGD, how many cells are taken from an embryo and tested?
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Q - True or False:- You can tell the sex of an embryo using genetic testing
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Q – What is the name for a genetic disorder which affects the nervous system?
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Q - How many genes are there on human DNA?
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A - More than 38,000 (though no one knows for sure!)
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A - 46 (23 pairs)
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A - Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
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A - Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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A - Female
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A - By giving her fertility drugs
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A - The nucleus
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A - A form of a gene
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A - In-Vitro Fertilisation
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A - Male
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A - A zygote
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A - True (sperm carry an X or a Y chromosome, which determine sex)
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A - De-oxyriboNucleic Acid
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A - An embryo
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A - 23
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A - False (eye colour is controlled by too many genes to test)
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A - A person who has one allele for a genetic disorder, but who does not
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A - The HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority)
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A - 20
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A - Sex cells (in humans, egg or sperm)
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A - In the uterus
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A - A baby selected to provide an older brother or sister with tissue (e.g. bone
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A - Cystic Fibrosis
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A – 0 (no nucleus!)
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A - False ( it is when the nuclei combine)
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A - A gene
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A - Only 1 (leaving 7 cells)
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A - True (by looking for X and Y chromosomes)
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A - Huntingdon’s chorea
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