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Health Triangle |
Social, Mental, and Physical |
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What are the seven major influences on your health? |
Family interaction, cultural background, friends, personal choices, environment, social media/entertainment, heredity |
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Heredity |
Is the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another |
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Genetics |
The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics |
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What are genes |
Inside every cell of each living thing are sets of instructions call genes |
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Deoxyribonucleic acid equals |
DNA |
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Genome |
All of the DNA contained in an organism or a cell |
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How many pairs of chromosomes does everybody have |
Everybody has 23 pairs of chromosomes |
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Dominant traits |
Require only one copy of a gene to express the trait |
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Recessive traits |
Requires two copies of the gene to express the traight |
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Common communicable disease |
Caused by a virus and there is no cure for vaccine because of the high number of strains |
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What are the three types of germs |
Virus, bacteria, fungi |
