The Effect of Alcohol on a Developing Brain

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• The Effect of Alcohol on a Developing Brain

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The Effect of Alcohol on a Developing Brain
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Starvation The Impact of the Environment on
Genetics
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Tobacco and Your Lungs
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Thalidomide Baby
In the 1950's and 60's women in many countries
prescribed thalidomide as a sedative and to help
with morning sickness. The drug causes terrible
birth defects and the children of pregnant women
taking the drug were often born with horrible
malformations including shortened arms, hands
extending directly from the shoulder, and the
absence of the thumb and the adjoining bone in
the lower arm. 15,000 children worldwide were
born with these serious defects before the drugs
were pulled off the market.
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HIV, illegal drugs, Gonorrhea
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Ozone

• The ozone layer reflects or absorbs 99 of
  damaging UV rays from the sun, preventing them
  from reaching the earths surface. However,
  pollution is compromising the ozone layer
  allowing more and more of the UV rays to reach
  the earths surface.
• The ozone layer is a protective covering that
  surrounds most of the earth and protects us from
  harmful UV rays. It has three oxygen atoms,
  rather than two oxygen atoms like the form of
  oxygen we breathe during respiration.
• There are a number of activities and events that
  cause ozone destruction.
• Hydrogen bomb testing
• CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in aerosols and
  refrigerants
• Exhaust gases from supersonic aircraft
• Fertilizers and
• Volcanic eruptions.

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You Can Control Your Environment

• HIV can be passed from mother to child during
  delivery. About ½ of infected mothers will pass
  HIV to their child during childbirth
• Newborns of crack cocaine mothers are born
  addicted to the crack. They experience tremors,
  seizures, and other withdrawal symptoms.
• Gonorrhea and syphillis are transmitted to the
  eyes of the newborn causing blindness.
• Some STDs have no cure and are common (e.g.,
  genital herpes).
• Protect the Ozone

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Genetic or Environmental?

• Skin cancer
• Widows peak
• 6 fingers
• Lung cancer
• Thalidomide baby
• Eye color
• Radiation
• Webbed fingers
• Diabetes
• dwarfism