Deck 3: C: Biological Foundations of Health and Illness

Question 1

Explain how DNA and other epigenetic processes mediate the biological effects of environmental factors.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss how specific structures within the nervous and endocrine systems are each involved when a person experiences a near-miss accident while driving.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Pick one of your physical or nonphysical traits that you believe to be strongly influenced by heredity and another that seems to be much less so.Provide evidence to support your answer,and explain why it makes sense for genes to play a larger role in some traits than in others.

Answer 3

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Question 4

Differentiate the processes of specific immunity and nonspecific immunity,giving examples of each.

Question 5

Identify the major anatomical components of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and explain their functions.