Exam 3: Prenatal Development

Sheila wants to have a baby. She drinks one to two drinks a day. She has vowed that as soon as she finds out she is pregnant she will stop drinking completely. Sheila does not realize that

Neurogenesis begins to take place at about the ________ week.

The endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm form during the ________ period.

Implantation takes place about ________ after conception.

Which of the following activities should be avoided during pregnancy?

A(n) ________ later develops into an embryo.

Compare and contrast the effects of the mother's drug use and the father's drug use on the fetus.

Exposure to teratogens during the fetal period will most likely

A cluster of abnormalities that appear in a newborn and include facial and limb deformities and defects of the limbs, face, and heart, and also often include neurocognitive difficulties and learning problems, are known as

The most common birth defect associated with women who took thalidomide during pregnancy was

Mary, a 16-year-old, found out she was pregnant and went to a clinic to get some advice. There she learned that babies born to adolescent mothers are

Jo-Mei is 14 years old and pregnant. Compared to a pregnant woman in her 20s, Jo-Mei is more likely to have

The germinal period includes

Which of the following make(s) up the largest portion of weight gain during pregnancy in the third trimester?

Which of the following events in fetal growth occurs during the last two months of pregnancy?

Janice contracted AIDS a month after her son was born. Is it possible for her son to get infected from her, and if so, how?

Rick is 42 years old and considering becoming a father. Should he be concerned that his age will affect the child?

Helen works as a nutritionist and dietitian with an obstetrics/gynecologist group. What advice is she likely to give pregnant women about eating fish?

What are the possible consequences of a father's cocaine abuse on the outcomes of a pregnancy?

Viability (the potential to survive outside the womb) occurs