Dwarfism

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outcasts. This is because Max is looked at like his father who has a reputation for crime, also Max is quite big for his age and not looked at as intelligent. Kevin on the other hand is nearly a exact opposite he has been cursed with a horrible case of dwarfism but has a gifted mind, of quite possibly a genius. Max and Kevin made their world better because they showed us that even though people can be looked upon as different or incomparable they can contribute to the world as well as anyone else can

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simple change in protein structure. Most of the individuals with Achondroplasia have similar mutations at a common nucleotide. Achondroplasia is a classification of dwarfism, which is a genetic disorder that causes a mutation on an autosomal chromosome with a change in a single nucleotide. Achondroplasia is a common form of dwarfism that is noticed by a short stature, lowered muscle tone, reduced extension of arm joints, shorter than normal hands and mid face hypoplasia (HUNG, C., et.al.2008).

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With knowing that this creature was so clearly not a H. sapiens, it leads us into the bigger question of how did this hominin become dwarfed when compared to other late Pleistocene hominins. This brings in the question how we should approach assigning taxonomy. Early on, there was argument for creating a whole genus to place H. floresiensis because the explanation for their existence was complicated. (Aiello 2010) H. floresiensis’s height and body portion of long arms and short legs appear to more

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(titled “ A Case of Dwarfism”) describes the story of a couple who are carrying the gene for achondroplasia, meaning they both are dwarfs. The counselor tells the parents that through genetic testing they can find out whether or not the child will have dwarfism as well. The couple has made 3 decisions; the first being that if the child has