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प्रश्न
Mention any one symptom of Turner's syndrome.
उत्तर
The symptoms of Turner syndrome are Short stature, gonadal dysgenesis, and sexual infantilism.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
A child suffering from Thalassemia is born to a normal couple. But the mother is being blamed by the family for delivering a sick baby.
(a) What is Thalassemia?
(b) How would you counsel the family not to blame the mother for delivering a child suffering from this disease? Explain.
(c) List the values your counselling can propagate in the families.
Attempt any TWO of the following:
‘The gene for sickle cell anaemia in homozygous condition is lethal and produces sickle cell trait in heterozygous carrier’. Explain.
Give a detail account of thalassemia.
Identify the disease caused by an autosomal primary non-disjunction.
Following list indicates various genetic diseases. Identify the diseases that are not caused due to single gene defect.
Huntington's chorea, alkaptonuria, Sickle cell anaemia, Down syndrome, thalassemia, Taysachs disease, Turner syndrome, cystic fibrosis, haemophi Lia, Klinefelter syndrome, albinism
Conditions of a karyotype 2n ± 1 and 2n ± 2 are called ______.
A disease caused by an autosomal primary non-disjunction is ______.
Fused ear lobes appear in the progeny due to an autosomal recessive gene. Work out the genotypes of number in the given pedigree.
Why is thalassemia cotegorised as a Mendelian disorder? Write the symptoms and explain the causes of the disease. How does it differ from Sickle cell anaemia?
Jacob is genetically a carrier of the disorder that affects the shape of the RBCs, as shown in the diagram below. His son James suffers from the same disorder.
- Give the biochemical reason for the disorder that changes the shape of the RBCs, as shown above.
- Draw a Punnett square to show the genotype of the mother of James.
- Name and define the type of 'point mutation' responsible for this disorder.
