Thalidomide Tragedy
You need to include the following information about the disease- reminder, this is on Phocomelia/ the Thalidomide tragedy-Causes
-What’s going wrong on the inside of the body at the cellular/ molecular level?
-Which chromosome in particular is impacted?
-Order of events of what’s going wrong on the inside of the body from the mother first taking the pill all the way to birth.
-Is this disease communicable? (can you ‘catch’ it from someone else)
-Is this disease heritable? (can you get it from your parents)
-Is this disease more common in certain areas of the world? If so, which countries, and why?
-Does this affect the life span of the victim?
-Difference between Roberts Syndrome and Phocomelia
-TWO Pictures detailing the process inside the body