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Have you ever wondered if anything ever goes wrong with all those intricate replication, transcription, and translation processes of DNA?   These abnormalities do happen on occasion and are considered genetic disorders. You now have the opportunity to learn about the causes and effects of some of these genetic disorders, as well as treatments for and research into them. Welcome to our Genetic Disorders Multimedia Project website! Within this website you will find instructions and resources to help you successfully complete your project. Your task is to produce a support website for individuals and families affected by a specific genetic disorder. Your group will choose a disorder to focus on and then research the causes and effects of that disease. The website you design will target a general audience; assume that the readers of your website have limited knowledge of genetics and inheritance patterns. You will need to explain inheritance to them! As part of your support site, you will include a “Discussion Forum” for readers to post questions and communicate with each other. Each group will be responsible for posting questions on two other groups’ websites and then answering the questions posted on their own website. Remember these questions must be relevant to the disorder being discussed. Begin your project by first visiting the Assigned Task for more details on the required pages for your website. In addition, you will notice that we have provided tabs for each of the four phases within the DDD-E model, Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate. By following each of these links, you will find resources, tutorials, and all the forms you will need to be successful during this project. We hope this project will prove to be an enjoyable and informative way to explore genetic disorders.
 * What would happen if some chromatids didn’t separate during meiosis when they were supposed to?
 *  What if a piece of a chromosome breaks off?
 * What if the DNA undergoes a mutation and doesn’t code for the correct protein?