Exam 2: The Start of Life

Labour proceeds in ____ stages.

About _______ babies born to mothers over 50 have ______.

Women who give birth over the age of ___ are at a greater risk for a variety of pregnancy and birth complications.

Of the following, which are the least likely to have multiple births?

What illegal substance used by pregnant women produces an intense restriction of the arteries, causing a significant reduction in the flow of blood and oxygen to the fetus, thereby increasing the risks of fetal death and a number of birth defects and disabilities?

Which procedure, in combination with ultrasound, can detect more than 80% of all malformations during the second trimester?

A birth in which the baby is surgically removed from the uterus, rather than traveling through the birth canal, is called

A father's use of alcohol and illegal drugs has no significant effect upon the development of the fetus.

Developmental researchers and other scientists study how heredity and the environment work in tandem to create and shape human beings and how that knowledge can be used to affect people's lives.

Overall, the success rate for in vitro fertilization is about

Approximately what percentage of children in Canada are born via a Caesarean delivery?

If a baby is being born feet first, this is called

What sexually transmitted infection can be communicated to the child as it passes through the birth canal to be born?

In the last few decades, more mothers have chosen to use a(n) ________ as the childbirth attendant who stays with her throughout labor and delivery.

Name the substance that genes are composed of that determines the nature of each cell in the body and how it will function.

The birth of a baby usually occurs _____ days after conception.

Genes vary in terms of their reaction range, which is the potential degree of variation in the actual expression of a trait due to environmental conditions.

Increasing evidence suggests that ingestion of even small amounts of alcohol and nicotine by a pregnant mother can disrupt the development of the fetus.

What was frequently prescribed by physicians to pregnant women in the 1970s to prevent miscarriages, but was later found to cause the daughters of the women who took the medication to develop a rare form of vaginal or cervical cancer and to have more difficult pregnancies?

Akili has the disorder that results from the presence of an extra X chromosome that produces underdeveloped genitals, extreme height, and enlarged breasts.She has