Genetics Study Guide

Chapter 3: Genetics
1. What is the single most cost effective way of getting genetic information?
2. Most of the genetic tests now offered are used for what?
3. What is pharmacogenomics? Do you know of any examples?
4. What s a major benefit and a major risk to genetic research and testing?
5. What is the difference between genotype and phenotype? What is the difference between dominant and recessive?
6. What is nondisjunction and how are these related to maternal meiosis (MI) errors? (so can you see why advanced maternal age effects the rate of Down's syndrome and Trisomy 18).
7. What is Klinefelter syndrome?
8. Draw a diagram to explain autosomal recessive and dominant inheritance (remember that 2X2 table from physiology?)
9. What is an inborn error in metabolism?
10. After reading Cancer genetics (pp 54-55), what is your take _on our current understanding of the relationship between genetics and cancer?
11. As a nurse, what is your role going to be in genetics?