Student Handout: From Gene To Disease Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to be elongated and sticky. Analyze how the sickle cell allele affects red blood cell function and its implications on health and evolutionary fitness.
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Topics
- heterozygous
- homozygous
- hematology
- public health
- red blood cells
- Punnett square
- autosomal
- carrier
- epidemiology
- genotype
- hemoglobin
- heterozygote advantage
- malaria
- parasite
- pedigree
- phenotype
- recessive inheritance pattern
- sickle cell anemia
- sickle cell trait