Genetics+Research+Project

Assignment and Rubric:


You are going to create a presentation of your choosing to educate your classmates about an inherited disease.
 * 1) Identify the disease being presented
 * 2) Symptoms of the disease; how does it affect the life of the individual?
 * 3) Inheritance pattern (Autosomal dominant? Autosomal recessive? Sex-linked? Other??)
 * 4) At LEAST one picture of an individual affected by the disease.
 * 5) Treatment options for the disease
 * 6) Works cited, with at least 2 reliable resources. These include, but are not limited to: books, journals, online sources, online databases, etc.

Copy and paste the link for your presentation onto the class Google Doc that Ms. Vivas shared with you via email.

Databases

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Books and Ebooks:
media type="custom" key="9214742" Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders

 Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Human Diseases and Conditions

Citing Your Sources:


Citing a website? Be sure to include:
 * name of website
 * name of page
 * author
 * publisher (look for copyright symbol)
 * date of e-publication
 * CRAP test

Citing a book? Be sure to include:
 * book title
 * chapter or section title
 * author of chapter or section
 * editor or author book
 * publisher
 * place of publication
 * date of publication

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">List of Diseases:
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 2. Achromatopsia <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 3. Albinism <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 4. Cri Du Chat Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 5. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 6. Galactosemia <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 7. Hypertrichosis <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 8. Marfan Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 9. Methomoglobinemia <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">.. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10. Moebius Syndrome || 11. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nail Patella Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 12. Osteogenesis Imperfecta <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">.. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 13. Phenylketonuria <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 14. Porphyria <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 15. Progeria <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 16. Retinoblastoma <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 17. Rett Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 18. Tay-Sachs Disease <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 19. Williams Syndrome <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 20. Wilson’s Disease ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 1. Achondroplasia

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Presentation Suggestions:

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