Differentiate between sexual identity and gender identity. Provide information from the chapter to support your answer

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Sexual identity is determined by a complex interaction of genetic, physiological, and environmental factors. The beginning of a person's sexual identity occurs at conception with the combining of chromosomes that determine the baby's sex. Gender identity refers to a personal sense of awareness of being masculine or feminine, male or female.

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Alzheimer's disease is a term used to describe:

(a) a form of inevitable ageism (b) all elderly people who have problems remembering (c) a progressive and irreversible decline in mental functioning (d) senility and dementia in the very elderly

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A ________ is a physician specialist who treats diseases of the integumentary system

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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