GCSE OCR Biology B7 sickle cell anaemia
- Created by: Chloe Thorn
- Created on: 04-06-11 16:50
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Sickle cell anaemia and marleria
sickles cell anemia is where red blood cells become deformed because of the haemoglobin becoming stickier and causing the cells to collapse in on themselves and become sickle shaped so they can no longer take in oxygen and this makes the person tired and often out of breath ( shortness of breath) and have aching muscles and pains when the cells stick together in the blood stream .sport is a hardship for them
Now lets take a bad thing and see the silver lining
this is an allele that is present in central Africa( and in other places too ) and is very useful there because it is a malaria zone , the parasite relies on being injected by the female mosquito in…
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