Question

True or false the consumption of irradiated food during pregnancy can cause birth defects

Answer 1

Consumption of irradiated food during pregnancy can cause birth defects is false.

What are birth defects?

Birth defect in pregnancy are the structural or functional abnormalities occur during intrauterine stage. It can be detected either prenatally or in infancy state.

The primary causes are genetic, Socioeconomic, Environmental and other factors.

Chromosomal abnormalities and single gene defects are the major genetic abnormality based birth defects, such as Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis etc.

When parents are related by their blood group can also leads to high risk of rare  genetic birth defects.

Hence, the statement is false

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