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-they have both a mechanistic and evolutionary explanation.
-can be placed into categories
-can have different causations - correct answer ✔what things makes a disease a disease?
-infectious - caused by pathogens
-genetic - caused by genetic defects
-degenerative - caused by the vulnerabilities of aging
-there can be gray areas because an infectious disease could have also manifested because of an age
issue - correct answer ✔what are the three categories diseases can be placed into. how can this blend
or be mixed?
mechanistic explanation - correct answer ✔an explanation for a phenomenon given in terms of a
mechanism that is assumed to produce it through an explicit chain of cause and effect
evolutionary explanation - correct answer ✔reconstructs the evolutionary history of a structure or
behavior
-genetic causation