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2. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Chapter Presentation Transparencies Bellringers Image and Activity Bank Resources Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Chapter Menu Brain Food Video Quiz Quotes About Character

3. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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5. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Other Diseases and Disabilities Contents Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases Section 3 Understanding Disabilities Chapter 15

6. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases Bellringer List all the hereditary diseases you can think of. How might a person with one of these diseases deal with the disease? Chapter 15

7. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Objectives Identify how genes are involved in hereditary diseases. Compare the three different types of hereditary diseases. Summarize three ways that a person with a genetic disease can cope with the disease. Describe a future medical treatment for hereditary diseases. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

8. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu What Are Hereditary Diseases? Hereditary diseases are caused by abnormal chromosomes or by defective genes inherited from one or both parents. Genes are segments of DNA located on a chromosome that code for a specific hereditary trait. Mutations are changes to a gene. Mutations can cause a disease or increase a person’s chances of getting a disease. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

9. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Types of Hereditary Diseases Single-gene diseases occur when a single gene out of the 30,000 to 40,000 genes in the body has a harmful mutation. In complex diseases, more than one gene influences the onset of the disease. Lifestyle behaviors also contribute to complex diseases. Chromosomal diseases occur when a person has the wrong number of chromosomes or an incomplete chromosome. Down syndrome occurs when a person has 3 copies of the 21 st chromosome instead of 2. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

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11. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Coping with Hereditary Diseases Genetic counseling informs a person or couple about their genetic makeup. Knowing your genetic makeup can help you understand the chances of passing on a hereditary disease to a child. You should keep personal health records and know the records of your family. Reading current information about a hereditary disease is a good first step toward coping with the disease. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

12. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Future Medical Treatment for Hereditary Diseases The Human Genome Project was a research effort to determine the locations of all human genes on the chromosomes and to read the coded instructions on the genes. The project was completed in 2003. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

13. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Future Medical Treatment for Hereditary Diseases Scientists hope to use the information from the Human Genome Project to treat hereditary diseases in different ways, including: targeting specific diseases with drugs making drugs to prevent diseases improving gene therapy creating genetic tests that can tell you which hereditary diseases you might develop. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

14. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Future Medical Treatment for Hereditary Diseases Our growing knowledge of human genes raises some concerns. People are concerned about potential genetic discrimination or that techniques could be used to change characteristics such as eye color, height, or intelligence. However, this new information is expected to help save many lives. Chapter 15 Section 1 Understanding Hereditary Diseases

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16. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases Bellringer List things to which people might have allergic reactions. Chapter 15

17. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Objectives Compare immune disorders and autoimmune diseases. Describe two types of immune disorders. Describe two types of autoimmune diseases. Summarize how people can cope with immune disorders and autoimmune diseases. Chapter 15 Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

18. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu What Are Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases? Immune disorders are the result of the immune system failing to function properly. Autoimmune diseases are diseases in which the immune system attacks the cells of the body that the immune system normally protects. Chapter 15 Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

19. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Types of Immune Disorders Allergies are reactions by the immune system to harmless substances. Asthma is an immune disorder in which the airways that carry air into the lungs to become narrow and clogged with mucus. Chapter 15 Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

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21. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Types of Autoimmune Diseases Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints that occurs when cartilage in the joints is damaged. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system destroys the lining of the joints. Osteoarthritis is a form of arthritis that is not an autoimmune disease. Instead, the breakdown of cartilage is due to age. Chapter 15 Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

22. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Types of Autoimmune Diseases Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks myelin, the fatty insulation on nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Chapter 15 Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

23. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Coping with Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases If you are diagnosed with an immune disorder or autoimmune disease: Chapter 15 Understand your disorder and your doctor’s treatment plan. Follow the treatment plan. Let your doctor know about new symptoms. Be honest with your doctor. Section 2 Understanding Immune Disorders and Autoimmune Diseases

24. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Bellringer How might your daily activities change if you had a disability? Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

25. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Section 3 Understanding Disabilities Objectives List three myths about disabilities. Describe three different types of disabilities. Identify two ways people cope with disabilities. Identify one way that you can help create a positive environment for people with disabilities. Chapter 15

26. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu What Are Disabilities? Disabilities are physical or mental impairments or deficiencies that interfere with a person’s normal activity. There are many myths about people with disabilities. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

27. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu What Are Disabilities? Chapter 15 Myth: People with disabilities prefer only to be around others with disabilities. Myth: People with disabilities always need help. Fact: Many people with disabilities live independently and are part of mainstream society. Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

28. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Disabilities Involving Vision While 1.3 million Americans are legally blind, nearly 10 million Americans have impaired vision. Glaucoma is an increased pressure inside the eye that causes impaired vision and eye damage. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

29. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Disabilities Involving Vision Macular degeneration is damage to an area of the retina that causes impaired vision. People at many different levels of visual impairment can get treatment with glasses, contacts, or laser surgery. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

30. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Disabilities Involving Hearing Nearly 28 million Americans are hard of hearing or deaf. Most partial deafness occurs in older people whose ears have been damaged by noise over time. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

31. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Disabilities Involving Hearing Tinnitus is a buzzing or ringing in the ears that is caused by exposure to loud noise. Hearing loss can also be caused by genetic factors, medicines, and infections. Treatment options include hearing aids and cochlear implants. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

32. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Disabilities Involving Movement Disorders that cause movement disabilities include multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome, and Tourette’s syndrome. Spinal cord injuries are a common cause of paralysis. Paraplegia is paralysis of the lower body. Quadriplegia is paralysis of the upper and lower body. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

33. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Coping with Disabilities Understanding and learning to deal with disabilities in a positive way helps make living with a disability easier. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is wide- ranging legislation intended to make American society more accessible to people with disabilities. Chapter 15 Section 3 Understanding Disabilities

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36. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.” —Chinese Proverb

37. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.” —African Proverb

38. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” —Mark Twain

39. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Our reverence is good for nothing if it does not begin with self-respect.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

40. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” —Japanese Proverb

41. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.” —Lord Jeffrey

43. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.” —Aristotle

44. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

45. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.” —Japanese Proverb

46. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” —Henry David Thoreau

47. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “A man’s character is his fate.” —Heraclitus

48. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.” —Aristotle

49. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Abstinence is the surety of temperance.” —Plato

51. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “This above all, to thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/ Thou canst not then be false to any man.” —William Shakespeare

52. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

53. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” —Aristotle

54. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” —Socrates

55. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Do what you know and perception is converted into character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” —Sophocles

57. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is higher than intellect.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.” —Confucius

59. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

60. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

61. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “That soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.” —John Fletcher

62. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” —German Proverb

63. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.” —French Proverb

64. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Don't forget to love yourself.” —Soren Kierkegaard

65. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.” —Orison Swett Marden

66. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” —John Ruskin

67. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.” —Horace Greeley

68. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” —James D. Miles

69. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” —William Penn

70. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” —George Eliot

71. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” —Elbert Hubbard

72. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.” —Karl G. Maeser

73. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is much easier kept than recovered.” —Thomas Paine

74. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is power.” —Booker T. Washington

75. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.” —Robert Baden-Powell

76. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. ResourcesChapter menu Quotes About Character “Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.” —Woodrow T. Wilson