GENETIC DISORDER RESEARCH POWER POINT
PROJECT
This unit project focuses on how genetics affects humans directly. Many people are affected by genetic
disorders; you may even have some family members or friends with some of these diseases. I suggest that
you choose a disorder that affects someone you know or intrigues you because it is strange or interesting.
The goal is to research the disorder and orally present information and recent research through a group
PowerPoint.
Achondroplasia
Breast cancer
Cri du chat
Dercum Disease
Duane Syndrome
Familial Mediterranean Fever
Huntington's disease
Parkinson's disease
Porphyria
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Trimethylaminuria
Wilson Disease
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Alzheimer’s disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth
Crohn's Disease
Diabetes
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Fragile X Syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome
Phenylketonuria
Progeria
Sickle cell disease
Tay-Sachs
Turner Syndrome
Autism
Colon cancer
Cystic fibrosis
Down Syndrome
Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Hemophilia
Marfan syndrome
Poly x females
Prostate Cancer
Skin Cancer
Thalassemia
Williams syndrome
Slides to Make & Present
Title Slide: Project Title, team members
Definition Slide: Discovery, overall disease description
Symptom Slide: What happens to body; part of body affected? List of all effects on
body
Cause Slide: What happens in body to cause disease – why do you get symptoms
(what is not working correctly)
Inherited Slide: Sex-linked-yes or no; particular chromosome; recessive or
dominant? Chance mutation isolated to one individual?
Diagnosis/Treatment Slide: How do they figure out what is wrong? Medications?
Gene therapy?
Frequency in Population Slide: More common in certain cultural group; how
common is it?
NAMES_____________________________
Genetics Disorder Grading Rubric
Presentation Requirements
Introduction – Definition slide
 Name the disorder
 Describe the history (discovery)
Describe the disorder – symptom slide
 What happens to the body?
 Symptoms/effects
Cause of the disorder
 What isn’t working properly, what
gives you the symptoms associated
with the disorder
How the disorder is inherited if it can be
 Is it sex-linked?
 Is there a particular chromosome
it is located on?
 Is it recessive or dominant?
 Is it a mutation? Nondisjunction, deletion, addition?
Chromosomal mutation or gene
mutation?
How the disorder is diagnosed
 What tests are done?
How the disorder is treated
 Medications? Gene therapy?
How many and what type of people are
likely to have the disorder - Frequency
 Is it more common in a certain
group of people?
 How common is it?
Total Points Earned
Earned
Points
Possible
Points
10
10
10
10
10
10
60
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