By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Describe the organization of the human body.
Explain the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree.
Determine the gender of the second patient in a lab scenario.
Explain the results of a karyotype and how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems.
Discuss how a disorder that results from chromosomal abnormalities affects body systems.
Competency 4: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Summarize new knowledge acquired in the lab.
Explain the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree.
Analyzes the likelihood of the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree and describes how a genetic counselor would explain the results to the patient.
Explains the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree.
Describes the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree.
Does not describe the inheritance of an autosomal recessive trait by reading a pedigree.
Determine the gender of the second patient in a lab scenario
Determines the gender of the second patient in a lab scenario, fully describing the genetic process by which gender is determined and including related references from current studies.
Determines the gender of the second patient in a lab scenario.
Explains how gender is determined, but does not apply this to the second patient in the lab scenario.
Explain the results of a karyotype and how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems.
Explains the results of the karyotype, how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems, and how a genetic counselor would explain the results to the patient.
Explains the results of the karyotype and how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems.
Indicates the results of a karyotype but does not explain how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems.
Does not explain the results of the karyotype and how the chromosomal abnormalities affect the body systems.
Discuss how a disorder that results from chromosomal abnormalities affects body systems.
Discusses a disorder that results from abnormal chromosomes and its potential impact on a person who inherits the condition.
Discusses how a disorder that results from chromosomal abnormalities affects body systems.
Describes a disorder that results from chromosomal abnormalities.
Does not describe a disorder that results from chromosomal abnormalities.
Summarize new knowledge acquired in the lab.
Summarizes new knowledge acquired in the lab and provides specific examples that relate to one’s personal or professional life.
Summarizes new knowledge acquired in the lab.
Describes the lab but does summarize new knowledge.
Does not describe new knowledge acquired in the lab.
