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1 Tay-Sachs disease the brain cells of a baby are unable to metabolize certain lipids because a crucial enzyme doesn't work properly. As lipids accumulate in the brain cells, an infant begins to suffer seizures, blindness, and degeneration of motor and mental performance (what disease is this?) AP Bio Chapter 14 - vocab
2 Tay-Sachs disease the brain cells of a baby are unable to metabolize certain lipids because a crucial enzyme doesn't work properly. As lipids accumulate in the brain cells, an infant begins to suffer seizures, blindness, and degeneration of motor and mental performance (what disease is this?) Unit 8 - Chapter 14
3 Tay-Sachs Disease An inherited disease that predominantly affects Jewish children of Ashkenazi origin. It is a progressive disease marked by degeneration of brain tissue Medical Terminology: Chapter 12
4 Tay-Sachs disease What condition results from a deficiency in the enzyme hexosaminidase A? USMLE Step I Comprehensive review
5 tay-sachs disease autosomal recessive disease: inability to properly break down certain lipids. Accumulation of the lipids in brain cells causes progressive nervous system dysfunction and is usually fatal by age four AP Biology Terms
6 tay-sachs disease autosomal recessive disease: inability to properly break down certain lipids. Accumulation of the lipids in brain cells cause progressive nervous system dysfunction and is usually fatal by age 4 heredity
7 Tay-Sachs Disease Lipid accumulation in brain cells; mental deficiency; blindness; death in early childhood; Recessive Biology Diseases
8 Tay-Sachs disease slowly destroys a baby's brain cells by a fat build-up (because they don't have the enzymes to break it down) Chapter 11 - Bio-E Mrs. Cohen
9 tay-sachs disease a genetic disorder that causes gradual deterioration of the nervous system PC 811 Final Terms
10 Tay-Sachs disease inherited degenerative disease of the central nervous system, no cure and remature death Health 11c
11 Tay-Sachs disease Children born with this disease, a disorder most often found in Jews of eastern European ancestry, usually die by age 3 or 4 because of the body's inability to break down fat. If both parents carry the genetic defect that produces the fatal illness, their child has a one in four chance of being born with the disease. Psyc300 ARC Exam 3
12 Tay-Sachs disease allele that codes for a dysfunctional enzyme to break down lipids Ap Bio chapter 3
13 Tay-Sachs disease inherited disorder in which brain cells unable to metabolize certain lipids b/c a crucial enzyme does not work properly Bio: Chapter 14
14 Tay-Sachs disease A human genetic disease caused by a recessive allele for a dysfunctional enzyme, leading to accumulation of certain lipids in the brain. Seizures, blindness, and degeneration of motor and mental performance usually become manifest a few months after birth. Bio 1 Lecture, Spring08
15 Tay-Sachs Disease defective catabolism of gangliosides in neurons Sphingolipid Metabolism Diseases

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