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Sorber And Pedigree
Kalee Sorber
Ms. Lawing
Biology Honors MYP
15 May, 2016
Sorber/Malmgren Pedigree
During this project, I found a lot of information about my family. Previously, I really only knew about my dad’s side of the family. After really putting it into perspective, the extent of my family, I realized how many people I didn’t even know about. There were some lapses in information including my grandfather on my mother’s side and my grandfather on my father’s side. This could have caused some abnormalities in data on either side of the pedigree.
I noticed while coding my family’s health history, that a lot of diseases and ailments were located to the far left of the pedigree, on my grandmother’s side. There were two cases of lung cancer and one case of

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