Quarter 4 Honors Project Check In 1

Student Name: Chris

Couple Letter: D
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Baby info:
Childs Gender: Female
Childs Name: Gertrude
Childs parents: Chris Mills & Juliana Moock

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What chromosomal abnormality is indicated on your karyotype?

Describe how it appears on the karyotype. It appears on the 13th chromosomal pair.
What disorder does it indicate? It indicates Patau Syndrome.
What are the symptoms of the disorder? Symptoms include heart defects, brain or spinal
cord abnormalities, very small or poorly developed eyes, extra fingers or toes, an opening in the lip
with or without an opening in the roof of the mouth, and weak muscle tone.
d. What is the prognosis for your baby with this disorder? Only 5%-10% of children with
this condition live past their first year.
e. What treatments and/or assistance would be necessary? Drug therapy, diagnostic tests,
surgery and rehabilitation, genetic counseling, palliative care, and tracheotomy are treatments that
are necessary for those with this disorder.
3. What allelic disorder is indicated by your family history? Marfan Syndrome. 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! The probability of our child having the allelic
disorder is 0%.
b. What are the signs and symptoms of this disorder? Signs and symptoms of this disorder
include long arms, legs, and fingers, tall and thin body type, curved spine, chest sinks in or sticks
out, flexible joints, flat feet, crowded teeth, stretch marks on the skin that aren't related to weight
loss or weight gain.
c. What treatments and/or assistance would be necessary for a child with this
disorder? Treatments and/or assistance that are necessary for those with this disorder are
medications and limitations on physical activity. Also other assistance options can include routine
Doctor appointments, and/or surgery if symptoms worsen.

4. Write out all possible Punnett Square(s) to predict your babys blood type. Explain
why multiple squares were or were not necessary. Multiple Punnett Squares were
necessary because the father has type A blood. Having type A blood means that there are two
possible combinations that express type A blood. The two combinations that express type A blood
are heterozygous and homozygous dominant. However, type AB blood only has one combination.

5. From the baby lab (Note: Do NOT attach your lab data to this. Instead, explain the
information as requested)
a. Choose 4 traits that are inherited by basic autosomal dominance or recessiveness.
Traits that are inherited by basic autosomal dominance or recessiveness
include: Face shape, chin size, chin shape, and cleft chin. Face shapeGenotype (Aa) this is heterozygous. Chin size- Genotype (Bb) this is
heterozygous. Chin shape- Genotype (Cc) this is heterozygous. Cleft chinGenotype (Dd) this is heterozygous. Our babys phenotype includes a
round face shape, a very prominent chin size, a round chin shape, and a
present cleft chin.
b. Choose 1 trait that is inherited by incomplete dominance. A trait that is inherited
by incomplete dominance is hair type. This is considered to be incomplete
dominance because hair type can represent a blend of two traits. Our
babys phenotype was wavy hair. Our babys genotype is (M1M2).
c. Choose 1 trait that is polygenic. A trait that is polygenic is skin color.
Polygenic means that there is more than one gene for a trait. Polygenic
inheritance worked to give our baby her phenotype because three
dominant alleles were present which gave our babys phenotype, medium
brown skin color. The genotype for our baby was (EE Ff gg).
6. List 2 Correctly-cited resources from which you found the information about your
genetic disorders in MLA format.
Works Cited

"What to Expect." What to Expect. Web. 15 Apr. 2016.

"Trisomy 13." Genetics Home Reference. Web. 15 Apr. 2016.