The General Principle That the Impact of a Teratogen Depends

question 49

Multiple Choice

The general principle that the impact of a teratogen depends upon the genotype of the organism is best illustrated by

• A) rubella being more likely to cause birth defects during some times of pregnancy than during others.
• B) thalidomide during pregnancy causing deformed limbs, but not low birth weight, while the use of marijuana during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight but not deformed limbs.
• C) the effects of eating PCB-contaminated fish while pregnant not being obvious when a child is born, but appearing later in the child's life.
• D) two women who both took thalidomide during pregnancy with one of them giving birth to a child with deformed limbs and the other giving birth to a child with normal limbs.

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