Mental Disorders — psychology STD 12 Arts — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ArtspsychologyMental Disorders3 Marks
Question
State the effects of defective genes on behavior.
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Answer
Defective genes affect endocrine glands, metabolism and enzymes.
Deficiency of a hormone called thyroxin secreted from the larynx leads to a condition called "creationism".
Abnormalities in the secretion of the adrenal glands responsible for impulse-time reactions lead to some psychosis.
Enzymes, whose presence only accelerates chemical processes in the body, if defective, have an inhibitory effect on metabolic processes (including the formation of body cells and the process of degeneration).
Obstruction of the metabolic processes in the brain is called "convulsions" and "phenyl purvic oligrophenia".
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