Studies That Implicate the Environment in Influencing Body Weight Consider

question 6

Multiple Choice

Studies that implicate the environment in influencing body weight consider

• A)indigenous populations where the people have lived in the same area for thousands of years and tend to all be thin.
• B)populations that split,with some people remaining in the homeland and others moving to areas where their diet changes dramatically,and they gain a great deal of weight.
• C)mice bred to be obese that are given different types of junk food.
• D)SNPs located throughout the genome.

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