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bioethics |
study that addresses societal concerns that new genetic technology may raise |
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genome |
term for all of the DNA (coding and noncoding) in an individual |
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nucleotide |
one piece- a phosphate, a deoxiribose sugar, and nitrogenous base |
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proteomics |
study of how proteins are made in a cell |
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relative risk |
term for an individual's risk of developing a genetic disease compared to other people in the population |
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allele |
variants of a gene |
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stem cells |
early cells that are not specilalized - considered totipotent |
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genomics |
study that looks at many genes at the same time as they interact with other genes and the environment |
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karyotype |
an organized picture of a person's chromosomes, sometimes used for diagnosis of chromosomal aberrations |
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polymorphism |
term for a variant that is found in at least 1% of the population |
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genotype |
the actual alleles present in an individual for a given trait |
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pedigree |
a geneticist would use this term for a family tree that shows the relationship among family members |
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species/population |
term for a group of interbreeding organisms |
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evolution |
the study of the change in alleles in a population |
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single nucleotide |
a variant that is due to a change in just one nucleotide |
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phenotype |
the term that describes the actual expression of a trait |
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multifactoral |
term for the situation in which the phenotype is due to the interaction of genes and the environment |
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mendelian |
study of genetic traits that is based on the expression of single gene pairs |
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gene therapy |
form of medical treatment in which a new gene is inserted to take the place of a missing or poorly working gene |
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gene |
unit of heredity |