Quarter 4 Honors Project Check In 1

Student Name: Harmony

Couple Letter: H
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Baby info:
Childs Gender: Male
Childs Name: Abe
Childs parents: Harmony and Zach
What chromosomal abnormality is indicated on your karyotype?

Edwards Syndrome
Describe how it appears on the karyotype. There was an unnecessary 18th Chromosome,
Instead of just two.
What disorder does it indicate? The disorder that was found was Edwards Syndrome.
What are the symptoms of the disorder? Low birth weight, small abnormally shaped head, and
birth defects in organs that is most likely fatal.
What is the prognosis for your baby with this disorder? Our baby will die within two weeks
to three months.
What treatments and/or assistance would be necessary? Our baby could go through different
surgeries to expand his lifespan but at the moment, there is no found cure for the syndrome.
What allelic disorder is indicated by your family history? Sickle Cell. Attach the pedigree
that you created based on your family history. Dont forget that if there are carriers, you
should shade them!

a. Based on your pedigree draw Punnett squares to predict the probability that your child will
also have the allelic disorder. Make sure that you state the probability after completing the
Punnett Squares!

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The baby has a chance of getting Sickle Cell.

What are the signs and symptoms of this disorder? Painful swelling in hands and feet.
Fatigue, yellowish tone in the skin and/or in the whites of the eyes, and pain anywhere in the
body.
What treatments and/or assistance would be necessary for a child with this disorder?
Liquid Penicillin could be prescribed to our baby along with many other medications and doctor
checkups every 3-12 months.
Write out all possible Punnett Square(s) to predict your babys blood type. Explain why
multiple squares were or were not necessary. Our baby will most likely have type A blood and
will be heterozygous. Multiple squares werent necessary because we knew who the parents were
and we werent working backwards to find their types of blood.
From the baby lab (Note: Do NOT attach your lab data to this. Instead, explain the
information as requested)
Choose 4 traits that are inherited by basic autosomal dominance or recessiveness.
Chin size, eye shape, windows peak, and dimples.
For each trait, give the genotype and state whether it is homozygous dominant,
heterozygous, or homozygous recessive
Chin size: bb/homozygous
Windows peak: Oo/heterozygous
Eye shape: TT/homozygous
Dimples: DD/homozygous
State the babys phenotype

Chin size: less prominent

Windows peak: present
Eye shape: almond shape
Dimples: present
b. Choose 1 trait that is inherited by incomplete dominance.
Eye color
i. This is incomplete dominance because each human has two genes for eye color and brown is
dominant over all alleles.
ii. Brown eyes, PQ Pq
c. Choose 1 trait that is polygenic.
Skin color
i. Explain what polygenic means
Polygenic is when each dominant adds to the phenotype but recessive
doesnt add or take away; when there is a wide variation in the trait.
ii. Explain how polygenic inheritance worked to give your baby his/her phenotype.
Instead of one or two genes, there are three genes. The dominant genes are
the upper cased letter and the recessive is the lower case so if you have
EEFFGG, then the baby will have really dark skin and if it is eeffgg then
the baby will have really light skin and if its in the middle then it will be
in the middle of light and dark.
iii. Be sure to include your babys genotype in your explanation
The genotype for my baby is EeffGg meaning he is a light brown.
6. List 2 Correctly-cited resources from which you found the information about your genetic
disorders in MLA format.
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