One Out of 800 Babies Are Born with an Extra

question 175

Multiple Choice

One out of 800 babies are born with an extra chromosome at pair 21, which results in the child having a moderate to severe intellectual disability and a shortened life expectancy of around 49 years. This condition is known as

• A)cretinism.
• B)phenylketonuria (PKU).
• C)Down syndrome.
• D)fragile-X syndrome.

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