Today, You Are Going to Learn a Little Bit About Each Type of Human Chromosomal Abnormality
Today, you are going to learn a little bit about each type of human chromosomal abnormality and the resulting cause and symptoms. Use your resources & knowledge of each condition to fill out the chart below. Identify the cause and list the major conditions or symptoms of the resulting syndrome/disease.
Name of condition / Cause / Symptoms and conditions1. Patau Syndrome / Ex. An extra 13th chromosome(trisomy 13) as a result of chromosomes not separating (nondisjunction) during meiosis / Severe abnormal brain function, cleft lip and palate, eyes don’t work, heart defects, mental retardation, and death in early infancy. Affects males & females
2. Edward’s Syndrome
3. Down’s Syndrome
4. Cri-du-chat
5. Jacobs’s Syndrome
6. Turner’s Syndrome
7. Klinefelter’s Syndrome
8. Triple X
9. Philadelphia Chromosome