Friday, April 6, 2012

Genome entry #6 Sex

Genetic diseases affect the genes in that it will cause a mutation and a disease will formulate. The Prader-willi syndrome and the angelman's syndrome are caused by the lack of chromosome 15. Furthermore, it has been proven that the only way to get it is if your parent has a mutation and it can be inherited. Prader-willi is from the father and angelman's from the mother. Placenta in the womb is controlled by paternal genes and has invade the others womb and gives resources to the child. Imprinting controls the mothers genes and it controls the development of the cerebral cortex and the hypothalamus. We inherit our mothers way of thinking and our fathers mood. Also gender roles are controlled by the genome rather than environmental situations around the person. Cloning apparently gets rid of all imprints of an organism and so that that organism can survive longer.

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