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(a) What is meant by ‘hereditary disease’? (b) Name any two types of heart diseases. (c) What is a prescribed drug? How is it different from a non-prescribed drug?(d) Differentiate between innate immunity and acquired immunity.

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(a) Hereditary Disease: Disease which is transmitted from parents to their children is called Hereditary disease. 

(b) Two types of heart disease: 

1. Cardiac failure 

2. Hypertension. 

(c) Prescribed Drug: A prescribed drug is a pharmaceutical drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed. It is different from a non-prescribed drug because it can only be bought at a doctor’s prescription. 

(d) Innate immunity: This immunity is present in the body since the birth. 

Acquired immunity: This immunity is acquired by infection or vaccination or by the transfer of antibody.



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