Herte MI EOC Review Part II

Term for non-invasive general testing that looks for abnormal values? (ex. blood work, mammogram, colonoscopy)

Term for sampling amniotic fluid for chromosomal abnormalities and can be done safely in the 2nd trimester?

What is the term for a non-cancerous tumor?

What is a display of the chromosome pairs of a cell arranged by size and shape?

Imaging technique that uses sectional 3-dimensional view of the body constructed by computed tomography?

Who is someone who deals with people who want to know their risk that a genetic disorder will occur in a family?

What is the term for the spread of cancer to distant area of the body?

The alteration of the genes of a person afflicted with a genetic disease?

Should an effective vaccine stimulate a response from B cells, T cells or both?

What is the name of an enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific sequence at a specific site?

What are the two types of cuts made by restriction enzymes?

What are short, palindromic repeated DNA sequences found in the genome of bacteria?

What is the term for uncontrolled cell division?

What is the term for taking place inside a living organism?

Go-to imaging test for suspected broken bones?

Term for gametes fertilized in a dish in the laboratory?

What is the PTC tasting gene (TAS2R38 gene)?

Imaging techniques that uses large magnets instead of radiation?

What does an autosomal disorder mean?

What is defined as the # of people who ate it and got sick over the total # of people who ate it?

Sickle-cell: Recessive. Both parents are carriers. What is the chance of their child having the disease?

What is the branch of medicine that is involved with diagnostic imaging?

What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism; What you received from mom and dad: GG, Gg

What are segments of your DNA, which give you physical characteristics that make you unique?

Term for more definitive testing. (ex. biopsy)

What type of disease/disorder needs two copies of the mutated allele to express it?

An agent (as a plasmid or virus) that contains or carries modified genetic material?

Term for technologies that doctors use to look inside your body?

What is the term for an enzyme that recognizes specific nucleotide sequences and cuts up DNA?

What is the term for how a gene is expressed in you? The physical and physiological traits you have-

Term for a short piece of complimentary DNA that attaches and starts synthesis of DNA replication?

What is the term for a one base-pair variation in the genome sequence?

What is the name of the science that deals with the incidence, and control of disease in a population?

What type of disorder only needs one copy of a mutated allele to express it?

What type of genetic disorder includes a genetic and life style component?

What type of study starts from the outcome and goes 'back' to determine the exposure to the risk factor?

What are the 3 strategies in gene therapy? How do they "fix" the gene?

Imaging technique that uses radioactive tracers and scans the entire skeleton?

What are the 3 steps of PCR?

What is the term for performed in the lab, outside of a living organism

What is the name of the machine used in PCR?

Test that can be done safely in the 1st trimester that samples placenta to look for chromosomal abnormalities?

What type of study starts from the exposure and goes 'forward' to determine the incidence of disease?

Term for tests that determine genetic abnormalities in the embryo before it is transferred to the uterus?

Term for something which increases susceptibility to a particular disease?

The restriction enzyme to edit genes and is known as...

What is the name of a DNA synthesis enzyme that can withstand the high temperatures of PCR?

What do you call a cancerous tumor?