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Infant's blood cells look like red bananas recognize as sickle cell…
Infant's blood cells look like red bananas recognize as sickle cell disease, an inheritable condition caused by a single nucleotide error in the DNA.
Inherited condition
You need both genes (1 mother, 1 father)
Sickle cell trait
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Can be passed to their children. If both parents have the trait there is a 1 in 4 chance their children will have sickle cell anemia.
If only one parent has the trait child will have a 50% chance they will carry the trait
If one parent has sickle cell disease and one parent sickle cell trait, child will have a 50% that he/she will have the disease.
Sickle cell anemia
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Hemoglobin A (HgbA) becomes defective, with time red blood cells become rigid and shaped like red bananas.
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Primary Structure of DNA = Contains Nitrogenous base -Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine. A deoxyribose sugar and at least one phosphate group
RNA- single helix contains genetic information. Carries info of amino acid sequence from the genes to ribosomes in the cytoplasm
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