malformations may be caused by genetic factors or environmental insults or a combination of the. two that occur during prenatal development. Most common congenital malformations demonstrate. multifactorial inheritance with a threshold effect and are determined by a combination of genetic and. environmental factors.
Naivete is a lack of knowledge or sophistication. An example of a person's naivete is when she falls for an obvious trick or prank. naivete. The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical. An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act.
Definition of deception. 1  1a : the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid : the act of deceiving resorting to falsehood and deception used deception to leak the classified informationb : the fact or condition of being deceived the deception of his audience.