The Biomedical Model Emphasizes Health Over Illness

question 71

True/False

The biomedical model emphasizes health over illness.

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Definitions:

Human Species

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only surviving species of the genus Homo.

Heterozygote Advantage

A genetic phenomenon where individuals with two different alleles for a particular trait have a greater fitness than individuals with two identical alleles.

Balanced Polymorphism

The presence in a population of two or more genetic variants that are maintained in a stable frequency over several generations.

Frequency-Dependent Selection

A mechanism of natural selection where the fitness of a phenotype depends on its frequency relative to other phenotypes in the population.