public health
biologic equilibrium - ✅✅ -organisms will usually adjust and adapt to their
environment and strike a viable balance in the host pathogen relationship
breakpoint transmission - ✅✅ -the point at which a parasite population is at such a
low level that it cannot sustain itself in the environment
Cancer - ✅✅ -characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells;
multi-step and multi-mutation process
co-dominance - ✅✅-occurs when both alleles affect the phenotype in separate,
distinguishable ways
DNA is the ________ material in humans - ✅✅-Hereditary
Dutch Hunger Winter Study - ✅✅-< low birth weight, 2x CVD risk, higher obesity
rate
Gain of function - ✅✅-activation of genes that stimulate cell proliferation known as
proto-oncogenes
✅✅-the alleles that are present
genotype -
Gregor Mendel - ✅✅-No prior knowledge of genes or chromosomes; chose pea
plants to study.
Gremline Mutations - ✅✅
-This occurs in the tumor suppressor genes resulting in
hereditary cancer syndrome
heterozygous -✅✅-two different alleles
homozygous - ✅✅-both alleles are the same
incomplete dominance - ✅✅-the phenotype of a heterozygote appears to be
intermediate to the homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive conditions
✅✅-proportion of exposed persons who become infected
infectivity -
Is cancer a genetic disease? - ✅✅-Yes; it is caused by changes in the DNA
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