Terminologies Flashcards

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the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic

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Culture

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the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation

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Ethics

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is defined as the study of genes and their functions, and related techniques. It address all genes and their inter relationships in order to identify their combined influence on the growth and development of the organism.

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Genomics

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evidence-based approach to maximizing one’s health potential through individually
formulated nutritional and lifestyle changes

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Nutritional Therapy

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a genetic disorder that is caused by the
combined action of more than one gene thereby making such disorder dependent simultaneously with the presence of several genes that either not inherited as simply as are singlegene diseases. (e.g. conditions include hypertension, coronary heart disease, and diabetes.)

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Polygenic disease

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a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

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Principles

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