Features of Clinical Audit/service Evaluation Include

question 66

Multiple Choice

Features of clinical audit/service evaluation include:

• A)Never involves allocating patients randomly to different treatment groups
• B)Places demands on patients and staff that do not significantly exceed those required for normal clinical management
• C)Never involves a completely new treatment
• D)All of the above

Identify the genetic basis for chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome and Turner syndrome.

Interpret how genetic linkage and crossing over affect gene inheritance.

Explain the significance of sex chromosomes in determining the sex of an individual.

Explain how karyotyping is used to diagnose genetic disorders.

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Definitions:

Recessive

A type of genetic trait or allele that is expressed in an organism only when two copies of the gene or allele are present.

Homozygous

Possessing two identical alleles for a trait.

Alleles

Two or more alternative forms of a gene that occupy the same position on paired chromosomes and affect the same trait.

Independent Segregation

A principle of genetic inheritance where different genes independently separate from one another when reproductive cells develop.