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Amniocentesis is used for determining
Option: 1
Heart disease
Option: 2
Brain disease
Option: 3
Hereditary disease of an embryo
Option: 4
All of these
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As we have already discusssed Amniocentesis -
- Amniocentesis is a foetal sex determination and disorder test based on the chromosomal pattern in the amniotic fluid surrounding the developing embryo.
- This procedure is used to test for the presence of certain genetic disorders such as down syndrome, haemophilia, sickle-cell anaemia, etc., determine the survival of the foetus.
- Amniotic fluid contains cells from the skin of the foetus and some other sources.
- These cells can be analysed to check the above-mentioned conditions.
- If it is established that the child is likely to suffer from a serious incurable congenital defect, the mother should get the foetus aborted.
- However, it was misused to kill the normal female foetus.
- Hence, there is a statutory ban on amniocentesis for sex-determination to legally check the increasing menace of female foeticides.
Hence, the correct option is (c).
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