Question

Dysgenic effect of medicine is ______________

(a) Disobeying Mendalian principle

(b) Against Darwin’s theory

(c) Leads to strengthening of the society

(d) Diseases become scarce

This question was addressed to me in unit test.

This is a very interesting question from Dynamic Mutation and Anticipation in chapter Nuclear Export & Post Mendelian Genetics of Cytogenetics

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) Against Darwin’s theory

Best explanation: Modern medicine is dysgenic as it counters the effect of natural selection by Darwin. As a result, children who would ordinarily have died young now survive to have children of their own, which inevitably leads to genetic degradation of the entire society.