Sunday, March 30, 2014

3/31-4/4

Monday
-Overview notes on Human Body Systems and Functions
-Skeletal System ppt
Tuesday
-PARCC
-Muscular System ppt
Wednesday
-Quiz on Body Systems/Functions and Medical Terminology
-Integumentary System ppt
Thursday
-Activity/Lab
Friday
-Nutrition/Digestive System ppt

Sunday, March 16, 2014

3/17-3/21

Monday
-Thompson Family Fortune Pedigree Project
-Study guide for Chapter 5 Test
-Genetic Disorder Project due on Thursday, 3/20
Tuesday
-Continue to work on Thompson Family Fortune
Wednesday
-Review for Chapter 5 Test
-Finish Thompson Family Fortune
Thursday
-Genetic Disorder Project due today
-Oral presentations begin
Friday
-Chapter 5 Test today
-Oral presentations

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Genetic Disorder Project Note-taking Guide

Name ________________________________ Block ________

Heredity and Genetic Disease Research Report Note-taking Guide

Use the following note-taking guide to help you take down important information regarding your topic.  This will serves as a checklist to make sure that you’ve gathered all of the necessary information and should help you summarize the information in your own words.

Section A:  Description of the genetic disorder/condition?
1.  Where does the name come from or what does it mean? _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
2a.  When was it discovered? _____________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
2b.  How was it discovered? ______________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
2c.  Who discovered it?  _________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
2d.  Where was it first seen?  _____________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

3a.  What are the signs and/or symptoms of the disorder?  ______________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section B:  Percent of population/probability of births (use statistics)
1a.  How many children are born with this disorder?  ___________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
1b.  How often does the disorder occur?  ____________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
1c.  How rare is the disorder?  _____________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

2a.  Does it occur in males more often or in females more often?  _________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
2b.  What is the male to female ratio ________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section C:  Inheritance Patterns
1a.  How is the disorder inherited?  _________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
1b.  What type of disorder is it?  (chromosomal, protein deficiency, enzyme deficiency, sex-linked, recessive)  ___________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section D:  Treatments
1a.  What are the treatments, if any? ________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
1b.  Are there any medications available? If yes, what are they?  ______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section E:  Life Expectancy
1a.  How long do people with the disorder live?  _______________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________
1b.  What is everyday life like for a person with this disorder?  ______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section F:  Organizations/Foundations/Resources
1.  What organizations/foundations or resources are available to help the families?  
______________________________________________________________________
citation:  ______________________________________________________________________

Section G:  Citations and documentations
1a.  How many pictures have you included in your project folder?  ________________________
1b.  How many diagrams have you included in your project folder?  _______________________
1c.  How many tables and/or charts have you included in your project folder?  _______________________

2.  Which citation website did you use?_______________________________

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Genetic Disorder Project

Genetic Disorders Name
Achondroplasia(Dwarfism)

Achromatopsia

Acid Maltase Syndrome/Pompe’s Disorder

Acromegaly/Gigantism

Adrenoleukodystrophy/Lorenzo’s Oil

Aicardi Syndrome

Albinism

Angelman Syndrome

Alkaptonuria

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome

Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia

Apert Syndrome

Asperger Syndrome/Autism

Ataxia Telangiectasia

Barth Syndrome

Bloom Syndrome

Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome

Canavan Disease


Celiac Disease

CHARGE Syndrome

CIPA (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain w/ Anhidrosis)

Coffin-Lowry Syndrome

Corpus Callosum Agenesis

Cri-Du-Chat Syndrome

Crohn’s Disease

Cystic Fibrosis

Cystinosis

Dercum’s Disease

Down Syndrome/Trisomy 21

Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy

Ectodermal Dysplasia

Edward’s Syndrome/Trisomy 18

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Epidermolysis Bullosa

Epilepsy

Factor V Leiden Thrombophilia

Fanconi Anemia

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva


Fragile X Syndrome

Galactosemia

Gaucher Disease

Hemochromatosis

Hemophilia

Huntington’s Disease

Hurler Syndrome

Hypophosphatasia

Ichthyosis

Klinefelter Syndrome/XXY

Krabbes Disease

Langer-Giedion Syndrome

Leukodystrophy

Long QT Syndrome

Marfan Syndrome

Moebius Syndrome

Mucopolysaccharidosis

Multiple Sclerosis

Myotonic Dystrophy

Nail-Patella Syndrome/Fong Syndrome


Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus

Neurofibromatosis

Niemann-Pick Disease

Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Patau Syndrome/Trisomy 13

Phenylketonuria (PKU)

Porphyrias

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Progeria Syndrome

Proteus Syndrome

Prune-belly Syndrome

Retinoblastoma (Eye Cancer)

Rett Syndrome


Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome

Sanfilippo Syndrome

Schwachmann Syndrome

Severe Combined Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (SCID)

Sickle Cell Disease

Sirenomelia

Smith-Magenis Syndrome

Stickler Syndrome


Tay-Sachs Disease

Treacher Collins Syndrome

Tuberous Sclerosis

Turner Syndrome

Urea Cycle Disorder

Usher Syndrome

Vitiligo

Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome

Waardenberg Syndrome

Werner’s Syndrome

Williams Syndrome

Wilson’s Disease

Xeroderma Pigmentosum

Super Male/XYY Syndrome

Methemoglobinemia
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