Chapter 2- Test Review- Theory and Science of Human Development

The _____ view states that development is the result of an ongoing, bidirectional interchange between heredity and the environment.

• Epigenetic

• Behaviorist

• Cognitive

• Maturational

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The Apgar scale assesses:

• newborn's physical condition after birth

• mother's health during pregnancy

• child's cognitive development

• infant's feeding habits

_____ introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859.

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Louis Pasteur

• Isaac Newton

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_____ develop from a single zygote that splits into two genetically matching replicas, each of which becomes a person.

• Identical twins

• Fraternal twins

• Conjoined twins

• Dizygotic twins

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_____ genes are those that make an individual more vulnerable to specific diseases or accelerated aging.

• Susceptibility

• Protective

• Dominant

• Recessive

Tristan has a genetic disorder that results in his having an intellectual disability. His mother informs Tristan's pediatrician that Tristan has an extremely short attention span for any task. Based on Tristan's symptoms, the pediatrician is most likely to diagnose Tristan with

• fragile X syndrome

• Down syndrome

• Turner syndrome

• Klinefelter syndrome

_____ genes are those that make an individual less vulnerable to certain diseases and more likely to live to an older age.

• Longevity

• Recessive

• Dominant

• Mutant

The postpartum period lasts for:

• 6 weeks

• 2 weeks

• 3 months

• 1 year

_____ is the interaction of a specific measured variation in the DNA and a specific measured aspect of the environment.

• Gene × environment (G × E) interaction

• Genetic drift

• Natural selection

• Mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS4-2

The process that produces 23 unpaired chromosomes is:

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Binary fission

• Budding