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The interaction between genes and personal environments determines whether or not certain diseases will develop.

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Which of the following is the best reason that it might be difficult to predict an individual’s future health issues?

Health issues are determined by environmental factors, which are subject to change.

Health issues are determined by a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors, which is difficult to predict.

Health issues are determined by genetic inheritance, which is not fully understood.

Health issues depend on lifestyle choices, which are not always predictable.

What is the evidence that depression can be linked to genetic as well as environmental factors?

All individuals in similar stressful environments do not experience depression.

All individuals with the gene variation tied to depression do not experience depression.

Individuals with a combination of environmental stress and gene variation are more likely to experience depression.

All of the above

Heredity is _______.

passing traits from one generation to the next

the likelihood that an individual will contract a disease

the optimal health a person can achieve

all of the above

How can an individual most likely achieve optimal personal health?

by controlling heredity factors

by assessing lifestyle and environmental risks in conjunction with heredity

through personalized medicine

through vitamin and mineral supplementation

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