Pearson GCSE BTEC Health and Social Care: Component 3 Questions With Correct Answers

What is health and wellbeing? - Answer Overall wellbeing based on PIES. What are types of physical inherited characteristics? - Answer Height, skin, eye colour, hair type and colour. How can physical inherited characteristics affect PIES? - Answer They influence a person's self-concept (their self esteem and self-image). How is a person's physical makeup made? - Answer They inherit chromosomes from both of their parents. These chromosomes carry genes which carry codes. What are alleles? - Answer Different versions of a gene, which variations of the same characteristics. What are environmental factors? - Answer Factors in the environment that affect people's wellbeing e.g diet. How are conditions inherited? - Answer When a faulty allele is passed from one parent (if dominant) or both parents (if recessive). They can also be caused by an abnormal number of chromosomes