down syndrome
“The formal story began in 1866, when a physician named John Langdon Down published an essay in England in which he described a set of children with common features who were distinct from other children with mental retardation.” Down was superintendent of an asylum for children with mental retardation in Surrey, England when he made the first distinction between children who were cretins (later to be found to have hypothyroidism) and what he referred to as "Mongoloids." “In the 1970s, an American revision of scientific terms changed it simply to "Down syndrome.”Chromosomes are thread-like structures composed of DNA and other proteins. “A person with down syndrome are short in stature and have a small, round head with a high, flattened forehead and fissured, dry lips and tongue.” They are present in every cell of the body and carry the genetic information needed for that cell to develop. “Genes, which are units of information, are "encod
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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