State the Diagnostic Criteria for Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Eating

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Essay

State the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorders not otherwise specified.

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Definitions:

Monozygotic Twins

Twins that develop from a single fertilized egg and are genetically identical.

Dizygotic Twins

Also known as fraternal twins, these are two siblings born at the same time who have developed from two different eggs fertilized by two different sperm cells.

Homozygous

Describes an organism with two identical alleles for a particular trait or gene.

Heterozygous

Possessing two different alleles of a gene, one inherited from each parent, resulting in variation of a genetic trait.