Biology

Deficiency Diseases and Disorders

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Deficiency diseases and disorders are caused by a lack of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in the diet or environment. This includes conditions like anemia, goitre, and night blindness. Practice these questions to prepare for general science exams.

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Deficiency Diseases and Disorders Questions

Multiple choice

What is avitaminosis?

  1. It is a disease caused due to malnutrition.

  2. It is the condition of poor vision.

  3. It is the condition arising due to over nutrition.

  4. It is the condition when bones become soft and bent.

  5. It is a condition due to long term deficiency of vitamin D.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This statement is true for avitaminosis.

Multiple choice

Phrynoderma is the disease caused due to the deficiency of

  1. fatty acids

  2. vitamin D

  3. minerals

  4. vitamin A

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It has been observed that Phrynoderma is a primarily vitamin deficiency disease. While there are certain other reasons responsible for causing this disease, the major reason behind toad skin is that sometimes the body becomes excessively deficit in certain vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin B complex and vitamin E, and as a result the chances of this kind of disorder tend to increase.

Multiple choice

Which of the following diseases are caused due to deficiency of fat soluble vitamins?

  1. Xerophthalmia, Rickets and Scurvy

  2. Scurvy, Hyperglycaemia and Nyctalopia

  3. Beriberi, Rickets and Scurvy

  4. Nyctalopia, Xerophthalmia and Rickets

  5. Xerophthalmia, Hyperglycaemia and Rickets
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Nyctalopia: Caused due to deficiency of Vitamin A (Fat soluble) Xerophthalmia: Caused due to deficiency of Vitamin A (Fat soluble) Rickets: Caused due to deficiency of Vitamin D (Fat soluble)

Multiple choice

Which of the following deficiencies may develop in a strict vegetarian?

  1. Nicotinic acid

  2. Protein

  3. Thiamine

  4. Cyanocobalamine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) is primarily found in animal products like meat, eggs, and dairy. Strict vegetarians who consume no animal products are at risk of B12 deficiency since plant sources are unreliable. The other options (nicotinic acid/niacin, protein, and thiamine) are readily available in plant-based foods.

Multiple choice

Osteoporosis is caused due to the deficiency of

  1. vitamin A

  2. vitamin B

  3. vitamin C

  4. vitamin D
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Osteoporosis is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time. Osteoporosis is the most common type of bone disease. Osteoporosis is the disease due to deficiency of vitamin D.

Multiple choice

Trichosporonosis causes death in patients

  1. having severe anaemia

  2. having haematologic malignance

  3. having severe tuberculosis

  4. having sinus and brain problems
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Trichosporon beigelii or T. captitatum are responsible for rare but growing infections in immune deficit patients. These agents can be insulated from the healthy skin and other sites like food, air, etc. Trichosporonosis frequently causes death in patients having haematologic malignance. Early symptoms involve fever, pneumonia, positive blood cultures and lung or eye infections. Trichosporon sp are vulnerable to Amphotericin B, miconazole but in maximum cases patients with disseminated infections die.

Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the following question by selecting the most appropriate option.

Mira and Divya are young girls. Mira likes to eat samosas, cutlets and bread. Divya, on the other hand, takes an iron deficient diet. Which of the following disorders are Mira and Divya likely to suffer from, respectively?

  1. Obesity and scurvy

  2. Scurvy and anaemia

  3. Anaemia and night blindness

  4. Obesity and anaemia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Mira's diet high in fried snacks and refined carbohydrates (samosas, cutlets, bread) is likely to cause obesity due to excessive calorie intake. Divya's iron-deficient diet lacks essential minerals needed for hemoglobin production, which can lead to anaemia.