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Tay Sachs Disease Sickle Cell Disease
663 wordsEach year a number of children are born with biological defects that impair normal function. For THREE of the following conditions, discuss such aspects as the biological cause, the methods of treatment and possible means of detection and / or prevention. One lethal disorder inherited as a recessive allele is Tay-Sachs disease. This is caused by a dysfunctional enzyme that fails to break down brain lipids of a certain class. The symptoms usually become manifest a few months after birth. Some sym...
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Genetic Disorder Tay Sachs Disease
579 wordsMy name is Put your name... and I am a carrier of Tay-Sachs Disease; my partner is also a carrier of this disease and our child is affected with Tay-Sachs Disease. Tay-Sachs Disease is a recessive genetic disorder which contains harmful quantities of fatty substances called Ganglioside GM 2 which harms the nerve cells in the brain. This disease mostly affect infants. The only way for a baby to be affected with this disease is when both of the parents is a carrier of this disease. There is a good...
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Tay Sachs Disease White Blood Cells
2,021 words... would fatally digest itself away. Some of these enzymes break down proteins, others attack fats, and still others disassemble the nucleic acids that make up DNA and RNA (Bourne, 1992, p. 123). Lynosomes don't always work right. When they fail, the result can be catastrophic disease. In Tay-Sachs disease, for example, victims have inherited a faulty gene, which leads to a defective enzyme or no enzyme at all. As a result certain undigested molecules accumulate in the lysosomes, gradually lead...
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Tay Sachs Disease Genetic Defects
1,673 words... rather than to label and limit students. There was someone that wanted to use this test to distinguish between people of good mental health and those that were not mentally healthy. The person that wanted to do this was H H Goddard. He brought Binets scale to America from France but he manipulated it to interpret innate intelligence. Goddard believed that the American population was at risk from the swift reproduction of the feeble-minded and from immigration. He also came up with a scale th...
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Tay Sachs Disease Autosomal Recessive
812 wordsThis condition, Tay-sachs TAY-SACHS DISEASE This condition, Tay-Sachs Disease, is due to the reduction of a key enzyme. This missing enzyme is hexosominidase and is commonly referred to as Hex A. When this enzyme is missing in lipids (fats), GMZ ganglioside accumulates in inert cells. Hex A is key and is needed to break up and regulate lipids. When GMZ builds up in the neurons, the functions of the nervous system are affected. This leads to mental retardation, damages in the nervous system, and ...
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