Answer to Question 1
Answer: C
Answer to Question 2
Answer: Women with gestational diabetes have an increased risk of high blood pressure, high blood acidity, infection, and death. They also have a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes in the decade following the birth. The fetus of a woman with gestational diabetes may become excessively large, with an increased risk for birth trauma; malformations of the heart, nervous system, and bones; respiratory distress; and fetal death. Even after an uncomplicated birth, the newborn is at risk for high insulin levels and fluctuations in blood glucose.
Late onset of Huntington disease
A single base substitution leading to a single amino acid substitution in the hemoglobin beta chain
Amyloid plaques (stained blue) in the brain of a deceased patient who had Alzheimer’s disease.
Misfolding or refolding of some proteins can result in disease
A sampling of bacterial diversity. Most bacteria do not cause disease.
Manhattan plots resulting from a genome-wide association study of seven common human disease