38.How can a woman\'s diet and health while pregnant have a direct impact on her

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38.How can a woman's diet and health while pregnant have a direct impact on her grandchildren? a. If she is in poor health and has a son his MtDNA will be affected, which he ill pass on to his b. The prenatal environment will determine her child's intelligence, which wil pass on to future c. If she has a daughter, all of that child's eggs wer d. If a woman is healthy and eats well during pregnancy then her offspring will be guaranteed to e. Nothing that happens during pregnancy can have an effect beyond the life of infant being children generations the prenatal environment be healthy, which they will pass on carried developed in utero and will be affected by

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The answer is c.

All the eggs in a female child are formed during fetal period and maternal nutrition directly affects the cellular development and growth of foetus , thereby affecting the development of the eggs of the female child born which will then affect the subsequent generation of the female child .

In option a. Mitochondrial dna are passed on from mother only and thus a male child can not pass on the mtdna to the subsequent generation.

In option b and d. The intelligence of an infant depends on maternal nutrition as it directly affects the maturation of neural system of the foetus but as intelligence is purely genetically driven, thus the subsequent generation’s intelligence will depend upon the genetic makeup and wil not depend on the nutritional status of the grandmother.

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