A Small Group of Chronic Offenders Engage in Frequent and Repeated

question 5

True/False

A small group of chronic offenders engage in frequent and repeated delinquent acts, but desist as they enter their twenties. ​

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Definitions:

Inherited Condition

A health condition or trait that is passed from parents to their offspring through genes.

Maternal Determinants

Substances, such as proteins or RNAs, located in the egg cytoplasm, provided by the mother, that influence the early development of the embryo.

Mitosis

A process of cell division in eukaryotic cells that results in two genetically identical daughter cells from a single parent cell.

Cytoplasmic Segregation

Process that parcels out the maternal determinants, which play a role in development, during mitosis.