Description
pick a disease to write about and
You MUST cite the source of your information for credit!
- Use: Author(s). Date of article/post). Title of Website. Host of website. URL of website.
- [Do NOT use blogs or commercial sites trying to sell something.]
Suggestions for content:
- What are the main symptoms of this disease?
- Does a person always “get the disease” if he/she inherits the gene?
- Does it affect only men or women or children?
- What is the gene product? Is it a defective enzyme or structural protein?
- On which chromosome is this gene?
- What does the protein normally do?
- How is the disease version of the protein differ from the normal one?
- What are the nucleotide base differences?
- What are the amino acid differences?
