Romanov+Lab+WG

Part 1: 1. His mothers name was Empress Maria. 2. She was born in Hesse, Russia. 3. a. He had four daughters. b. He only had one son. c.The two youngest were Prince Alexie 4. a. The name of the blood disorder is hemophilia b. The symptoms are severe bleeding in those afflicted c. He inherited it from his mother 5. Alice, Irene, Frederick, Waldemar, and Sigmund, all suffered the disorder.

7. In 1917, Nicholas the second abdicated his throne. 8. a. Vladimir Lenin became the leader. b. The political party is the Bolsheviks. c. The reason was 9. a. The significance was that Tsar and his family were taken to that House. b. Tsar and his family were executed by the Bolshevik soldiers, without a trial. 10. A doctor, a nurse and two servants were also killed in the shooting. a. Family jewels had been sewn into their corsets. that is what caused the some bullets to ricochet. Part 2: 1. The burial site of the Tsar and his family is in Yekaterinburg, Siberia. 2. To determine remains of the Romanov family, they had to evaluate the bones. The forensic dentalist examined the teeth and mouth. The forensic criminalist looked for trace evidence on the bodies. The forensic pathologist evaluated the bodies. 3. a. 9 bodies were recovered. b. 11 people were reportedly shot. 4. a. It indicates that the skeleton belonged to a person 22 years of age or older. b. If the rings between the vertebras have fused, then the person is at least 18 years old. If the vertebra is not fused, then the person is 17 and under. 6. Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia were both missing because no skeleton under the age of 18 was recovered. 7. DNA in the bones and skull bones. 8. a. They are alike because both forms of DNA are made up of the same units or nucleotides. b. They differ in structure and is separate from the DNA found in the cell nucleus. 10. We inherit it from our mothers. 11. a. all five children received identical copies of mitochondrial DNA from their mother, Tsarina Alexandria. b. Tsarina Alexandria inherited her mtDNA form her mother, who inherited it from her mother. c. No. Tsar Nicholas the second inherited his mtDNA from his mother, and he, as is the case with all men, did not pass his mtDNA onto hi children. 12. a. It traced back to Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert. b. Prince Phillip of England. 14. The nurse. 15. Because he is the last one alive, and he contributed his DNA for comparison. 16. Tsar Nicholas the second. 17. They were adult male servants at the execution site; it is most likely that skeletons#1, 2, and 8 belonged to these royal servants. 18. Because if Anna Anderson is Princess Anastasia, then her mtDNA should be an exact match to the mtDNA sequence from the female skeletons recovered in Yekaterinburg. 19. To see if he matched with Anderson.

21. a. Microscopic slides were found in the hospital she was treated in many years ago. There was also intestinal tissue that had been looked at under the microscope. b. No they weren’t. Not even one of the sequenced hairs matches Alexandria Romanovs sequence. She wasn’t the daughter of Alexandria and Nicholas Romanov. c. Their bodies were partially cremated immediately after they were shot. The soldiers then scattered their remains.