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Describe one example of a human disorder that is inherited ?

also describe the specific inheritance pattern. For this question, pick disorders that result from mutations in DNA or chromosome number rather than examples such as a genetic tendency for a disorder such as cancer.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Color blindness, a color vision deficiency in animals, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. The English chemist John Dalton in 1798 published the first scientific paper on the subject, "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours",[1] after the realization of his own color blindness; because of Dalton's work, the condition is sometimes called Daltonism, although this term is now used for a type of color blindness called deuteranopia.

    Color blindness is usually classed as disability; however, in selected situations color blind people have an advantage over people with normal color vision. There are some studies which conclude that color blind individuals are better at penetrating certain camouflages.[2] Monochromats may have a minor advantage in dark vision, but only in the first five and a half minutes of dark adaptation.

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    4 years ago

    ok properly needless to say adult men have an X chromosome and a Y, at the same time as women human beings have 2 X's. via fact of this some issues can in easy terms be contemporary in adult men. case in point if a ailment is a mutation of the Y chromosome, in easy terms a male ought to get this ailment via fact they're the only ones with Y chromosomes interior the 1st place. additionally the theory that girls human beings might properly be distributors of problems with out even having the subject themselves is commonly via undeniable fact that they have 2 X chromosomes. in the event that they get a ailment on one in all their X chromosomes, their 2d one ought to nonetheless be generic. Then while they have toddlers, between the mothers and between the fathers chromosomes are chosen. the daddy grants an X or a Y, and the mum grants one in all the two of her X's. If the mum supplies an X, and the daddy additionally supplies an X (ensuing in a daughter) then if the fathers X chromosome has abnormalities, and the mum has given her strange one, the daughter might have the ailment. this does not unavoidably in basic terms count style for issues the two, that's something, even eye shade or hair shade etc.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    MCADD - its an enzyme deficiency, totally genetic. Type MCADD into search engine and you can readily find the chromosome/mutation its located.

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