Consumption of irradiated food during pregnancy can cause birth defects is false.
<h3>What are birth defects?</h3>
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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The ways in which an element—or compound such as water—moves between its various living and nonliving forms and locations in the biosphere is called a biogeochemical cycle. Biogeochemical cycles important to living organisms include the water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycles.
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Shadows are longest in the early morning and late afternoon/early evening when the sun appears low in the sky. As the Earth rotates on its axis, the sun hits each location in the morning at an angle. ... As Earth continues to spin toward sunset, the increasing angle causes shadows to lengthen!
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Genetic pressure forces an animal to adapt to their environment, therefore changing their genetic code and contributing to genetic variation.
 
        
             
        
        
        
As molten rocks cool gases such as nitrogen water vapor and carbon dioxide are released