CYAF 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Malnutrition, Measles, Artificial Insemination
30 Jan 2017
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Do not run in families; not predicted by age or nutrition. Ectoderm (outer layer) skin, hair, nails, sensory organs, and nervous system: mesoderm (middle layer) muscles, bones, reproductive system, and circulatory system. Teratogens: harming to the fetus: teratogens, behaviors, environments, and bodily conditions that could be harmful to the developing organism . Includes secondhand smoking: the effect on the fetus is highly dependent on the gestational age at time of exposure. Infertility: infertility worldwide, us: % of couples experience infertility, cultural differences exist on how infertility is viewed. In the west: may be a sense of sadness or loss, marital strain: outside of the west: can be deeply stigmatizing, especially for women, infertility causes, for men. Sperm with low mobility: for women, drugs and alcohol. Extremely overweight: problems can be genetic, behavior, or environmental; or age, infertility treatments, assisted reproductive technologies (art)
