What Is Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Multiple Choice

What is respiratory distress syndrome?

• A) a breathing disorder likely to affect high-birth-weight infants
• B) a cluster of breathing problems likely to affect premature infants
• C) a breathing disorder mothers sometimes develop during pregnancy
• D) a breathing disorder that sometimes develops in infants during delivery

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

The mechanism through which creatures that are more suited to their surroundings are more likely to live and have a greater number of descendants.

Genome

A genome is the complete set of DNA, including all of its genes, in an organism, encapsulating the entire genetic information.

Monozygotic

Pertaining to identical twins who developed from a single fertilized egg and share all of their genes.

Dizygotic

Refers to twins that are formed from the fertilization of two separate eggs by two separate sperm, resulting in fraternal twins that are genetically distinct, akin to regular siblings sharing approximately 50% of their genes.