An Infant Is Born with Facial Irregularities and a Small

question 19

Multiple Choice

An infant is born with facial irregularities and a small, malformed brain. As the child grows up, she shows symptoms of mental retardation and tends to be both irritable and hostile. It is most likely that this infant's abnormalities are a function of her mother's prenatal exposure to:

• A) HIV.
• B) nicotine.
• C) excessive alcohol.
• D) untreated syphilis.

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