{"id":220,"date":"2023-02-23T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/?p=220"},"modified":"2023-02-23T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T20:38:08","slug":"romanov-assignment-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/2023\/02\/23\/romanov-assignment-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanov Assignment Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. The Romanovs were the last Russian monarchy to rule after being killed in 1917.<br>2. \u201cMikhail\u00cds son Alexis, &#8220;the Quiet One&#8221;, ascended to the throne after his father\u00cds death, and son followed father generation after generation until Peter the Great took the title of emperor and declared that his wife Catherine would succeed him.\u201d (Pbs, 2022). After Peter the Great\u2019s daughter ruled, Catherine the Great ruled. Then \u201cher son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar.\u201d (Pbs, 2022).<br>3. He was called \u201cEmperor and Autocrat of All the Russians\u201d, \u201cNicholas the Bloody\u201d and \u201cLittle Father Tsar\u201d (British Library, 2021).&nbsp;<br>4. He had to abdicate the throne because of his distaste in the mouths of the Russian people and Prince Lvov ended up taking control (Britannica, 2022).<br>5. Nicholas II\u2019s family were all slaughtered on July 17, 1918, then burned and buried (Britannica, 2022).<br>6. Nicholas II wife, Alix, was related to Queen Victoria of England by being her granddaughter.<br>Both Queen Victoria and Alix are designated as being carriers for hemophilia.&nbsp;<br>7. \u201cHemophilia is&nbsp;a rare disorder in which the blood doesn&#8217;t clot in the typical way because it doesn&#8217;t have enough blood-clotting proteins (clotting factors). If you have hemophilia, you might bleed for a longer time after an injury than you would if your blood clotted properly.\u201d (Mayo Clinic, 2021).<br>8. Hemophilia B is probably represented in the pedigree chart.<br>9. The Romanov\u2019s son, Alexis, had hemophilia.&nbsp; Genetically, he acquired it from his mother, who was a carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a><\/a> &nbsp;<\/td><td>X<\/td><td>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<\/td><td>XX<\/td><td>XY<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>x<\/td><td>Xx<\/td><td>xY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>10. Only males in the pedigree chart have hemophilia because the females are all carriers but only the males are affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>X<\/td><td>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<\/td><td>XX<\/td><td>XY<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>x<\/td><td>Xx<\/td><td>xY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>11. It is possible for a female to inherit hemophilia if their father had it and their mother was a carrier or she herself had it.&nbsp;<br>12. None of Alexis\u2019 sisters are shown to have hemophilia.&nbsp; Using only the tools available at the time they lived, it couldn\u2019t really have been determined whether they were carriers like their mother or not. Their tools weren\u2019t as advanced yet.<br>13. The probability of the daughter of a mother who is a carrier and a father who does not have the disease, will be a carrier is 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>X<\/td><td>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<sup>C<\/sup><\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup> X<\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<\/td><td>XX<\/td><td>XY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>14. The probability that 4 daughters of a mother who is a carrier and a father who does not have the disease, will be a carrier is 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>X<\/td><td>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<sup>C<\/sup><\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup> X<\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<\/td><td>XX<\/td><td>XY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>15. The reason why none of Alexi\u2019s sisters had hemophilia is because since females have two X chromosomes, when one if faulty, they have the other to \u201clean on\u201d; therefore, they would only be carriers and not acquire the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>X<\/td><td>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<sup>C<\/sup><\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup> X<\/td><td>X<sup>C<\/sup>Y<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>X<\/td><td>XX<\/td><td>XY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>16. Rasputin was a Serbian monk that was a drunk and a womanizer, but he was infamous for his healing abilities. Alexandra, Nicholas II\u2019s wife, came to him about her only son\u2019s excessive and painful bleeding after an injury. It\u2019s evident that he helped the child, and from then on, Alexandra confided in him and took advice from him on important government decisions. The Russian people eventually became disgusted with him and what he portrayed, and he was murdered by Royalists in 1916 (BBC, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The Romanovs were the last Russian monarchy to rule after being killed in 1917.2. \u201cMikhail\u00cds son Alexis, &#8220;the Quiet One&#8221;, ascended to the throne after his father\u00cds death, and son followed father generation after generation until Peter the Great took the title of emperor and declared that his wife Catherine would succeed him.\u201d (Pbs,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/2023\/02\/23\/romanov-assignment-part-1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/sbaez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}