Growth and Repair-B5
- Created by: Shannon
- Created on: 05-06-13 11:15
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- Growth and Repair
- Balanced diet increase growth
- Extremes of height-genes, hormone imbalance
- Different parts of the body grow and develop faster, such as the head
- Transplants require suitable tissue matches
- Ethical and moral dilemmas
- Growth hormone is produced in the pituitary gland
- Increase in human life expectancy
- Advances in medicine, healthier diet, better housing
- Bigger burden on government and health services
- Transplants could be rejected-immuno suppressing drugs- body cannot protect itself from disease
- Blood and marrow can be donated-body replaces them
- Balanced diet increase growth
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