Name and Describe the Three Major Types of Eating Disorders

question 52

Essay

Name and describe the three major types of eating disorders discussed in your text.List three suggestions for what a person can do to help someone with an eating disorder.

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Definitions:

Genetic Potential

The maximum physical or intellectual growth and development that a person can achieve, based on their genetic composition.

Additive Genes

Genetic models where the effects of individual genes add up to influence a trait, without dominance between alleles.

Dominant Genes

Genes that express their traits in the phenotype, regardless of the presence of their recessive counterparts in an organism's genotype.

Recessive Genes

Genes that produce their characteristic phenotype only when their allele is identical and not masked by a dominant allele in a pair.