Antoinette was diagnosed with hypertension, a noncommunicable disease in which her blood pressure is higher than normal. What is
the most likely explanation for why she is hypertensive? A.She was obese and had a diet high in salt intake.B.She did not wash her hands enough.C.She was bitten by a mosquito.D.She was never vaccinated against hypertension
Antionette's hypertension, or high blood pressure, is likely to have been caused by A. she was obese and had a diet high in salt intake<span>. In obese individuals, the blood vessels start to narrow due to accumulation of fat on their inner walls. This reduced area for blood flow causes obese people to have higher blood pressure than normal.</span>
The parents are of genotype heterozygous dominant and homozygous recessive. Supposing the dominant allele is N and the recessive allele is n, one of the parents will be Nn while the other nn. The phenotypic (based on visible characteristics) ratio will be 1:1 for dom/rec and rec/rec
