Hemophilia

Hemophilia:

What is Hemophilia?
 - Hemophilia is a genetic or medical condition in which the ability of the blood to clot is severely reduced, causing the sufferer to bleed severely from even a slight injury. 
 Example: If a kid who has Hemophilia fell and got a cut on his knee it would be 100x more severe then if I was to fall and get a cut. His cut would not clot up to stop the bleeding and would keep bleeding unless treated properly. While my cut would stop bleeding in a matter of second because my blood would clot to stop the bleeding.

Why is it so severe?
 - This condition is so severe for the soul purpose of blood loss that if not treated can lead to the death of the person. If a person who had hemophilia got a cut it would keep bleeding on and on until there was almost no blood left in the body. If you didn't know if you don't have blood YA BOY DIES!

How do you come about getting Hemophilia?
 -Hemophilia is a recessive genetic traits passed on from parents to kids and kids to kids forever and ever. Females have a lower chance to get hemophilia then men.
Why?
 -Men are defined as men because of the XY chromosome and since the Y is a LOSER and cant do ANYTHING he cant hold ANYTHING. The only thing that can hold something is his X meaning he either has it or he doesn't. While women have XX meaning they can either have it or be a carrier of the genetic trait.

Reflection:
 - This unit about Genetics and Hemophilia was one that I enjoy most out of the units we've done this year because its showing actual things in our lives. They are interesting to know about ourselves like where we got our traits from and or if one of us is carrying a trait that is no good and we want. This unit is all about stuff that you might want to know about yourself which helped me retain it better than other units. It interesting to think about how we got to this point in DNA to where we can know almost everything about a person by the DNA in there body and to wonder how much farther we can go with genetics as the years go on. 

Citation:
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Genetics Home Reference - National Institutes of Health
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