Mendelian Disorders In Humans
Project Requirements:
1. Choose a Mendelian Disorder in Humans and make a power point presentation answering the following
questions. (~ 4-5 slides) You will quickly present the PowerPoint 11/7/11, so make it interesting.
2. Define Mendelian Disorder
3. Define Recessive and Dominant.
4. Is the disorder you chose recessive or dominant?
5. Define genotype and phenotype.
6. What are the possible genotypes for this disorder?
7. Describe the phenotype of someone who has this disorder.
8. What are the symptoms of the disorder you chose?
9. Answer at least 2 of the following questions pertaining to Epidemiology.
a. What is the probability of having this disorder?
b. What is the probability of carrying this disorder?
c. What is the frequency of this disorder in the world?
d. Is this disorder more likely to occur in a certain population of people?
10. Is it possible for your disorder to skip generations?
11. BIBLIOGRAPHY- min. 3 sources (only one Wikipedia, no wikianswers, .edu, .gov, .org are preferred
over .com sources)