Poor Posture Puts Abnormal Strain on Bones and May Eventually

question 69

True/False

Poor posture puts abnormal strain on bones and may eventually produce deformities.

Identify various levels of health prevention and their applications.

Evaluate the benefits of physical activity on health, specifically in older adults.

Analyze models of health and how they define who is considered healthy.

Explain the agent-host-environment model and its application to predicting illness susceptibility.

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Definitions:

Polygenic

A term describing a trait or characteristic that is influenced by more than one gene, often resulting in a continuous range of possible phenotypes.

Codominant

A genetic scenario where two different alleles of a gene are both fully expressed in a heterozygous individual, leading to a phenotype that is a mixture or combination of both alleles.

Recessive

A genetic term referring to traits that are expressed only when two copies of a gene, one from each parent, are present.

Dominant

Refers to a trait, allele, or characteristic that overpowers or is more likely to be expressed than another in genetic inheritance.