ANTHROPOLOGY Questions To get Tay-Sachs disease a child must inherit a defective

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To get Tay-Sachs disease a child must inherit a defective gene from only one parent. _______ Some symptoms of illness, such as diarrhea, may be cither harmful or beneficial, depending on the disease the person has. _______ Titanosuchus, dated to approximately 220 million years ago, had mammal-like characteristics. _______ All genetic changes in species do not necessarily lead to adaptations. _______ Bipedalism is incompatible with a scavenging strategy. _______ Our hominoid ancestors had cusp patterns suggesting we arc fruit eaters. _______ Chimps are inherently the most intelligent of the great apes. _______ Baboons are terrestrial quadrupeds wherein the males are particularly solicitous guardians of their friends' youngest infants. _______ Chimpanzees are less aggressive than humans. _______ Food sharing seems to be more general in savanna than in forest chimpanzees. _______

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To get Tay-Sachs disease a child must inherit a defective gene from only one parent,

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Tay-Sachs disease is a genetic, inherited disorder where the patient lacks of a vital enzyme hexosaminidase (Hex-A). Hex-A is the vital enzyme to break down the fatty waste found in brain cells due to which the patient die by age of five, although subject seems to be healthy at birth. The gene responsible for this disease is recessive. Hence to get Tay-Sachs disease a child must inherit a defective gene from both the parents.

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