Matching II. Match the cause with the disorder
1. ___ Down syndrome
2. ___ galactosemia
3. ___ color blindness
4. ___ hemophilia A
5. ___ Turner syndrome
A. autosomal recessive inheritance; lactose
metabolism is blocked
B. nondisjunction of the twenty-first
chromosomal pair
C. X-linked recessive inheritance
D. nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes
Answers: 1. B, 2. A, 3. C, 4. C, 5. D
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