Amniocentesis and Female Foeticide Prevention — NEET Biology
✅ Asked in NEET 2023Successful implementation of various action plans to attain reproductive health requires strong infrastructural facilities, professional expertise and material support. These are essential to provide medical assistance and care to people in reproduction-related problems like pregnancy, delivery, STDs, abortions, contraception, menstrual problems, infertility, etc. Implementation of better techniques and new strategies from time to time are also required to provide more efficient care and assistance to people. Statutory ban on amniocentesis for sex-determination to legally check increasing menace of female foeticides, massive child immunisation, etc., are some programmes that merit mention in this connection. In amniocentesis some of the amniotic fluid of the developing foetus is taken to analyse the fetal cells and dissolved substances. This procedure is used to test for the presence of certain genetic disorders such as, down syndrome, haemophilia, sickle-cell anemia, etc., determine the survivability of the foetus.
NTA tests whether students understand that amniocentesis is a prenatal diagnostic procedure used to detect genetic disorders like Down syndrome and hemophilia, NOT a sex-determination technique. The key concept is the statutory ban on using amniocentesis for sex-determination to prevent female foeticide. Students often confuse amniocentesis with sex-determination methods and think it's only used for determining fetal sex. Remember: amniocentesis has legitimate medical uses (detecting genetic disorders and fetal viability), but its misuse for sex-determination is legally banned in India. NEET questions test whether you know the purpose of the ban and the actual clinical applications of this procedure.
This paragraph was tested 2 times in NEET.
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. (NEET 2023) Assertion A: Amniocentesis for sex determination is one of the strategies of Reproductive and Child Health Care Programme. Reason R: Ban on amniocentesis checks increasing menace of female foeticide. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
In the context of amniocentesis, which of the following statements is incorrect?
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