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17. Briefly compare human recessive disorders to human dominant disorders. Your answer should include one example of each typ
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In humans, there are 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs of chromosomes 22 pairs are autosomes and one pair is sex chromosome each chromosome have 2 copies ( in males there are 2different sex chromosomes, X and Y, males have 2 copies for each of the autosomes). Genes are located on the chromosomes, each copy of the chromosomes have the alleles of the gene, alleles are variants of a gene.

human recessive disorders are those diseases, which are caused by the recessive alleles that is both alleles of an individual has to be in the recessive condition.

example: Tay-Sachs disease, individuals who are affected with the Tay-Sachs disease has to have recessive mutant allele of the gene on the chromosomes.

dominant disorders: are genetic disorders caused by a dominant mutant allele, so the individual will be affected even if only one copy of the dominant allele is present.

example: Huntington disease.

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