The effect of today's radioactive fallout will probably be more harmful to children of futrure generation than to present day children because

Options

A. infants are more susceptible to radiations
B. susceptibility to radiations increase with age
C. mutated genes are usually recessive
D. all of these.

Answer

C

Explanation

The radioactive fallout can cause near-immediate effect by killing cells and damaging tissue. But radioactive fallout can also casuse long term effect by causing mutations in the DNA of living cells. These mutated genes are usually recessive and so they can appear anytime in our future generations. That is the reason why effect of radioactive fallout probably will be more harmful to children of futruegenerations than the present.