Biology · General Awareness

Vitamins and Nutrition

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Review essential concepts of human nutrition, focusing on macro and micronutrients. The questions cover vitamin deficiencies, sources, and their physiological roles such as blood clotting and vision. This material is highly relevant for the general science section of various government exams.

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Vitamins and Nutrition Questions

Multiple choice

The ‘anti-beriberi factor’ is called so because of the fact that the problem of beriberi increases greatly when the concerned diet lacks this factor.

Which of the following vitamins is popularly known as anti-beriberi factor?

  1. Vitamin B1

  2. Vitamin B3

  3. Vitamin B6

  4. Vitamin B12

  5. Vitamin C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Vitamin B1 or thiamine is popularly called anti-beriberi factor as well as anti-neuritic factor. Dry beriberi is characterized by rapid weight loss and muscle wasting while wet beriberi type is characterized additionally by generalized edema.

Multiple choice

Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin forming the part of the vitamin B complex.

Which of the following chemical tests help us to measure the rate of absorption of vitamin B12 from our intestine?

  1. Acrolein test

  2. Anthrone test

  3. Carr-Price test

  4. Schilling test

  5. Sulkowitch test
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Schilling test refers to a test performed by administering vitamin B12, labelled with radioactive cobalt to an individual that helps to measure the rate of absorption of vitamin B12 from intestine.

Multiple choice

The ‘anti-dermatitis factor’ is called so because of the fact that the problem of skin inflammation increased greatly when the concerned diet lacked this factor. Which of the following vitamins is popularly known as anti-dermatitis factor?

  1. Vitamin C

  2. Vitamin B1

  3. Vitamin B3

  4. Vitamin B6

  5. Vitamin B12
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Vitamin B6 is popularly known as anti-dermatitis factor. The vitamin B6 was originally given the name of ‘anti-dermatitis factor’ due to the fact that the problem of skin inflammation increased greatly when the concerned diet lacked this vitamin.

Multiple choice

Carbohydrates, proteins, fats and minerals are collectively known as

  1. fibres

  2. roughage

  3. vitamins

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

Carbohydrates, proteins, fats and minerals are the most essential components of our diet, and they are collectively known as nutrients. Roughage refers to the fibrous part of our food like green leafy vegetables, salads, fruits, etc. Vitamins themselves are components of nutrients.   

Multiple choice

The chemical name of vitamin E is

  1. tocopherol

  2. calciferol

  3. carotene

  4. maltose

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

Vitamin E is the collective name for a set of eight related tocopherols and tocotrienols. 

Multiple choice

Deficiency of which vitamin causes the cracking of lips at the corner?

  1. Vitamin A

  2. Vitamin B2

  3. Vitamin C

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Angular cheilitis (cracking at mouth corners) is a classic sign of riboflavin (Vitamin B2) deficiency. This B vitamin is essential for skin and mucous membrane health. Other B vitamin deficiencies cause different symptoms: B1 (beriberi), B3 (pellagra), and B12 (anemia).

Multiple choice

Match the following:

 
1.Beri beri
a.(Vitamin B12-cobalamin),
2.Pellagra
b. (B3-niacin)
3.Anemia
c. (C-ascorbic acid)
4. Scurvy
d. (Vitamin B1-thiamine)

  1. 1-(d), 2- (b), 3-(c) and 4-(a)

  2. 1-(d), 2-(b), 3-(a) and 4-(c)

  3. 1-(b), 2-(d), 3-(c) and 4-(a)

  4. 1-(a), 2-(b), 3-(d) and 4-(c)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Beriberi is caused by thiamine (B1) deficiency, pellagra by niacin (B3) deficiency, anemia by cobalamin (B12) deficiency, and scurvy by ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) deficiency. This matching tests knowledge of vitamin-deficiency disease pairs. These conditions highlight the essential roles different B vitamins and Vitamin C play in human health.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a function of vitamin E?

  1. It helps in the reproduction in rats.

  2. It helps in the normal muscular function.

  3. It helps in the normal use of vitamin A and carotene in the animal body.

  4. It helps in the protection against anti-infective factors.

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

Option (4) is the correct answer.

Multiple choice

What is the reason behind calling vitamin A as “anti-infective”?

  1. It helps to reduce the opacity of the eye lens.

  2. It helps to store vitamin B.

  3. It is universal.

  4. It has protective action on the epithelial tissue of the body.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Vitamin A is known as “anti-infective” because it has protective action on the epithelial tissue of the body.