Exam 2 – 587 words – Flashcard Answers
Flashcard maker : Livia Baldwin
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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
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Robert Guthrie
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American researcher; Founded the Eugenics Record Office and was a proponent of eugenic policieds in the U.S
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Charles Davenport
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British researcher; developed a biochemical method for determining the sequence of bases in a DNA molecule
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Frederick Sanger
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American researcher; developed a means to efficiently copy specific regions of DNA molecules using heat resistant polymerases
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Kary Mullis
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British researcher; studied extensive pedigrees of the European royalty and discovered desirable traits tend to run in families
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Francis Galton
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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
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Nancy Wexler
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Now serevs as head of the NIH; discovered many genes for human diseases and led government funded efforts to sequence the human genome
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Francis Collins
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Options for women with a positive BRCA genetic test include…
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Increased cancer screening, Preventative drug therapy, Risk aviodance, Mastectomy
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Huntington’s Disease is what kind of inherited disease?
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Autosomal Dominant
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PKU is what kind of an inherited disease?
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Autosimal Recessive
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Hemophilia A is what kind of an inherited disease?
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x-linked recessive
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The production of humilin is made possible through application of…
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Recombinant DNA technology
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They cut DNA at specific sequences
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Restriction Enzymes
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Comapred to Sanger sequencing, next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are…
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ble to generate significantly more sequence data
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PCR is made practival throgh the use of polymerases that…
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Are derived from heat tolerant microbes
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When chromosomes fall to separate during meiosis
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Non- disjunction
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A small minority of Down syndrome cases are associated with
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Chromosomal translocations
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In the US, Europe and among other developed nations, a modern form of eugenics is made possible primarily through
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
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Organisms genetically engineered to carry and express a gene introduced from another species
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Transgenic Organisms
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Imbalance in the number of chromosomes
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Aneuploidy
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In the Sanger DNA sequencing methos dideoxy- nucleotides result in…
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Termination of a DNA chain synthesized by DNA polymerase
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A genetic disease affecting only sons of affected fathers but never daughters
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Y-linked
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Restriction enzymes are used by molecular gebeticists to…
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ut DNA fragments at specific sequences
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Used to separate out fragments of DNA by their size
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Electrophoresis
