Factors That Can Interfere with the Intake of Balanced Nutrition

question 16

Multiple Choice

Factors that can interfere with the intake of balanced nutrition in older adults include:

• A) depression.
• B) chronologic age.
• C) amount of stored body fat.
• D) use of multivitamins.

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Definitions:

Common Phenotype

The set of observable characteristics or traits shared by individuals within the same population.

Neutral Variation

Variation that does not appear to confer any selective advantage or disadvantage to the organism.

Adaptive Variation

Differences among individuals in a population that result from genetic changes and environmental factors, enabling better survival and reproduction.

Genetic Polymorphism

The presence in a population of two or more alleles for a given gene locus.