Short Response Questions AWS
Short Response Questions Chapter 4 – Prenatal Development Factors After completing the answers, you may either print the PDF or save it electronically to email to your instructor. 1. Identify three factors that determine the extent of damage caused by a teratogen. When are teratogens most dangerous and why?
2. Explain the meaning of epigenetic crisis or period.
3. List and describe the three categories associated with the umbrella term fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
4. A woman who is three months pregnant smokes an average of three cigarettes per day. Following the birth of her child, she continues smoking and breastfeeds her baby. Why might smoking have an effect on her newborn? Summarize the short- and long-term risk factors associated with maternal tobacco smoking.
5. Explain the fetal effects of nonprescriptive drugs that are taken in large doses by the pregnant woman.
6. List three fetal defects associated with rubella infections in the mother during pregnancy.
7. Erythroblastosis fetalis is a condition that exists when an Rh-positive fetus is exposed to the antibodies of its Rh-negative mother. What are some of the characteristics of this disorder?
8. Specify three characteristics that might cause a woman to be a high risk for giving birth to a child with abnormalities.
9. Provide one reason for concern about babies who exhibit small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) birth weights.
10. Summarize the guidelines concerning exercise during pregnancy and postpartum by providing a minimum of five recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
11. Describe the three maternal screening tests that are commonly referred to as the “triple marker.”
12 Draw an illustration of the female reproductive system and plot the course of prenatal development from follicle rupture to uterus implantation.
13. Describe the process by which sickle-cell disease can lead to death.
2. Explain the meaning of epigenetic crisis or period.
3. List and describe the three categories associated with the umbrella term fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
4. A woman who is three months pregnant smokes an average of three cigarettes per day. Following the birth of her child, she continues smoking and breastfeeds her baby. Why might smoking have an effect on her newborn? Summarize the short- and long-term risk factors associated with maternal tobacco smoking.
5. Explain the fetal effects of nonprescriptive drugs that are taken in large doses by the pregnant woman.
6. List three fetal defects associated with rubella infections in the mother during pregnancy.
7. Erythroblastosis fetalis is a condition that exists when an Rh-positive fetus is exposed to the antibodies of its Rh-negative mother. What are some of the characteristics of this disorder?
8. Specify three characteristics that might cause a woman to be a high risk for giving birth to a child with abnormalities.
9. Provide one reason for concern about babies who exhibit small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) birth weights.
10. Summarize the guidelines concerning exercise during pregnancy and postpartum by providing a minimum of five recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
11. Describe the three maternal screening tests that are commonly referred to as the “triple marker.”
12 Draw an illustration of the female reproductive system and plot the course of prenatal development from follicle rupture to uterus implantation.
13. Describe the process by which sickle-cell disease can lead to death.
