Which of these vitamins helps prevent rickets, a condition of abnormal or underdeveloped bone growth?

Vitamin D is crucial for proper bone growth and development because it helps the body absorb calcium and phosphorus from food. Rickets is a condition characterized by soft, weak bones and skeletal deformities, caused specifically by vitamin D deficiency in children. While vitamin A is important for vision and immune function, and vitamin C for collagen, neither directly prevents rickets like vitamin D does.