Name: _____________________________ Period: _______________ Date: ___________
Genetic Disorder Webquest
Utilize the following website in order answer
the questions in regards to the following 6
diseases.
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/dis
orders
I. Click on the “CHROMOSOMAL
ABNORMALITIES” link and answer the
following questions about 4 diseases.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/dis
orders/chromosomal/
A. Cri-Du-Chat Syndrome
1. How do people get this disease?
B. Down’s Syndrome
6. How do people get Down’s syndrome?
7. What are three symptoms of downs’
syndrome?
1.
2.
3.
8. How do doctors diagnose the disease?
2. What happens to the larynx in people
with this disease?
9. Is there a cure for Downs’ syndrome?
3. What are some distinctive features
of people with Cri-Du-Chat?
4. What is the life expectancy of people
with Cri-Du-Chat?
10. List 2 interesting facts about Downs’
syndrome.
1.
2.
5. Name 2 interesting facts about CriDu-Chat Syndrome?
1.
2.
Name: _____________________________ Period: _______________ Date: ___________
17. What are the symptoms of people
C. Klinefelter’s syndrome
with Turners syndrome?
11. What kind of people are affected by
Klinefelter’s?
12. How do people get Klinefelter’s
disorder?
13. What are some symptoms of people
with Klinefelters?
14. What are some treatments for people
with Klinefelters?
D. Turners Syndrome
15. Turner’s syndrome happens in what
kind of patient?
16. How does one get Turners syndrome?
18. What are some possible treatments
for people with Turners syndrome?
II. Click on the “SINGLE GENE
DISORDERS” link from the original link
and answer the following questions in
regards to Single Gene Disorders.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/dis
orders/singlegene/
A. Cystic Fibrosis
19. What organ system does Cystic
Fibrosis affect?
20. What chromosome carries the Cystic
Fibrosis gene?
21. List 3 symptoms of Cystic Fibrosis
1.
2.
3.
Name: _____________________________ Period: _______________ Date: ___________
C. Sickle Cell Disease
B. Huntington’s Disease
22. What functions are affected by
Huntington’s?
27. What protein does Sickle Cell Disease
affect?
23. What are some mental symptoms of
Huntington’s?
28. List 3 symptoms of the disease.
1.
2.
3.
24. How is Huntington’s disease
diagnosed?
25. Name one interesting fact of
Huntington’s disease?
29. What is one treatment for Sickle Cell
Disease
30. Name two interesting fact of Sickle
Cell Disease.
1.
2.
26. How does one get Huntington’s
disease?