What Can Be Said Regarding the Relationship Between Genetics and Obesity

question 262

Multiple Choice

What can be said regarding the relationship between genetics and obesity?

• A)Genetics provides only a risk for overweight and obesity,not a definite destiny.
• B)Genetics is destiny.If an individual has the FTO gene,he or she will become obese.
• C)There really is no genetic relationship,only environment.
• D)Eating sweets and carbs changes chromosome so that the individual's offspring will have difficulties with obesity.

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Definitions:

Optical Activity

The ability of a molecule to rotate plane-polarized light, a property used to distinguish between enantiomers in stereochemistry.

Enantiomers

Molecules that are mirror images of each other but cannot be superimposed upon one another, similar to left and right hands.

Polarimeter Tube

A component of a polarimeter used to measure the rotation of polarized light as it passes through an optically active substance.

Polarized Light

Light waves in which the vibrations occur in a single plane.