Informative Speech On Sickle Cell

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I remember a few months ago you asking me how you got sickle cell disease and if I have any knowledge about the disorder. Now, after doing some research, I hope I can be some help to you being able to understand the disorder after being diagnosed with it for so many years.
Like many disorders, sickle cell disease is inherited. A person who has the disorder must inherit the two genes for sickle hemoglobin from one’s parents. Many people could be carriers for the disease,possess no symptoms, and later pass it on to their own children. Furthermore, when you were conceived, you received a set of genes from your dad(sperm) and another set from your mom(egg). Inside structures, called chromosomes, where DNA is tightly coiled, there contained are

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