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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Grace and Blair, ???? span with cystic fibrosis is approx. 37 years, pancreas is the organ that helps to absorb and break down food, gene can be carried without symptoms, Cystic Fibrosis is treated only by lessening symptoms, Cystic Fibrosis can be detected by a blood test, Cystic Fibrosis is caused by a defective gene, gene which interferes with the body's water transferring, person must inherit two defective CF genes to have Cystic Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis limits a person's life span to approx. 37 years, Cystic Fibrosis causes the body to produce abnormally thick and sticky fluid, called mucus, mucus results in life-threatening lung infections and serious digestive problems, food is essential for ????, Cystic Fibrosis has many symptoms, 1 in 29 Caucasian Americans have Cystic Fibrosis, gene is defective due to the absence of the protein called cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator, mucus builds up in breathing passages of the lungs and in the pancreas