Karyotype Activity
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/activities/karyotyping/karyotyping.html
1. What is a karyotype?
2. How are they used?
3. How are they made?
4. What does each band on the chromosomes represent?
5. You are now going to complete the activity.
Give the following for each of the 3 patients:
1.
2.
3.
4.
List each patient (patient number)
their history
After completing the karyotype give their diagnosis (put the total number of chromosomes they
have, XX or XY, and which chromosome has too many. For ex. 47, XX, +22)
explain their abnormality.