Nova: Cracking the Code of Life - Video Notes
Chapter 1, 2, 3: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html
1. What percentage of our DNA actually consists of genes that code for traits?
2. What are the symptoms of Tay Sachs disease?
3. What is the difference between Hayden’s DNA and a healthy child’s DNA?
4. Genes code for proteins and proteins determine our traits. EXPLAIN how the Tay Sachs
gene affects the protein in affected children that causes the effects in their brain (symptoms
of Tay Sachs).
5. What does it mean that all 4 of the parents in the video are ‘carriers?’
Nova: Cracking the Code of Life - Video Notes
Chapter 1, 2, 3: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html
1. What percentage of our DNA actually consists of genes that code for traits?
2. What are the symptoms of Tay Sachs disease?
3. What is the difference between Hayden’s DNA and a healthy child’s DNA?
4. Genes code for proteins and proteins determine our traits. EXPLAIN how the Tay Sachs
gene affects the protein in affected children that causes the effects in their brain (symptoms
of Tay Sachs).
5.
What does it mean that all 4 of the parents in the video are ‘carriers?’