EBK BIOLOGY
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Chapter 16, Problem 12TYU
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY Imagine that you are a genetic counselor. What advice or suggestions might you give in the following situations?
- (a) A couple has come for advice because the woman had a sister who died of Tay-Sachs disease.
- (b) A young man and woman who are not related are engaged to be married. However, they have learned that the man’s parents are first cousins, and they are worried about the possibility of increased risk of genetic defects in their own children.
- (c) A young woman’s paternal uncle (her father’s brother) has hemophilia A. Her father is free of the disease, and there has never been a case of hemophilia A in her mother’s family. Should she be concerned about the possibility of hemophilia A in her own children?
- (d) A 20-year-old man is seeking counseling because his father was recently diagnosed with Huntington’s disease.
- (e) A 45-year-old woman has just been diagnosed with Huntington’s disease. She says she will not tell her college-age sons because of the burden it will place on them. Given that the woman, not her sons, is your client, do you have a duty to inform the sons? Explain your reasoning.
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Chapter 16 Solutions
EBK BIOLOGY
Ch. 16.1 - Distinguish between karyotyping and pedigree...Ch. 16.1 - Prob. 2LOCh. 16.1 - Prob. 3LOCh. 16.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 16.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 16.1 - Describe two ways in which genome database...Ch. 16.1 - Prob. 4CCh. 16.2 - Explain how nondisjunction in meiosis is...Ch. 16.2 - Distinguish among the following structural...Ch. 16.2 - Prob. 6LO
Ch. 16.2 - VISUALIZE Draw a simple sketch illustrating how...Ch. 16.2 - Prob. 2CCh. 16.2 - Prob. 3CCh. 16.2 - Prob. 4CCh. 16.3 - State whether each of the following genetic...Ch. 16.3 - Which of the following genetic diseases is/are...Ch. 16.3 - Prob. 2CCh. 16.3 - Prob. 3CCh. 16.4 - Briefly discuss the process of gene therapy,...Ch. 16.4 - Prob. 1CCh. 16.5 - State the relative advantages and disadvantages of...Ch. 16.5 - Distinguish between genetic screening programs for...Ch. 16.5 - Prob. 1CCh. 16.5 - Prob. 2CCh. 16.6 - Prob. 11LOCh. 16.6 - Prob. 1CCh. 16.6 - CONNECT To be expressed, an autosomal recessive...Ch. 16.6 - Prob. 3CCh. 16 - Prob. 1TYUCh. 16 - An abnormality in which there is one more or one...Ch. 16 - The failure of chromosomes to separate normally...Ch. 16 - Prob. 4TYUCh. 16 - Prob. 5TYUCh. 16 - Prob. 6TYUCh. 16 - Prob. 7TYUCh. 16 - Prob. 8TYUCh. 16 - Examine the following pedigrees. Which is the most...Ch. 16 - Examine the following pedigrees. Which is the most...Ch. 16 - Prob. 11TYUCh. 16 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY Imagine that you...Ch. 16 - A common belief about human genetics is that an...Ch. 16 - Prob. 14TYUCh. 16 - EVOLUTION LINK Explain some of the evolutionary...
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