The beginning of March is a new month, a new color and a new disease from our project “Colors of Life” – 2021-1-PL01-ESC30-SOL-000036535. In our project, March has been assigned to Down’s Syndrome, and the main color is the color of the rainbow. The most recognizable attribute of the disease is colorful socks. Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that belongs to the group of aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is an abnormal number of copies of chromosomes that contain genetic material. In Down’s syndrome we are dealing with a triple copy of the 21st chromosome, instead of a double. The excessive amount of genetic material located on this chromosome is the cause of the characteristics of this syndrome. Belong to them:
- typical appearance changes
- lowering the intelligence quotient
- many accompanying flaws
