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Multiple choice evs nutritious food minerals and vitamins nutrition and diet role of various nutrients

Which of the following protein plays an important role in ageing 

  1. Elastin

  2. Collagen

  3. Actin

  4. Myosin

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

Collagen is the most abundant extracellular protein which with ageing becomes less permeable, less flexible and insoluble. These changes interfere the normal functioning of the cells (decreased inflow of nutritive substances and oxygen into cells and also decreased loss of nitrogenous waste and $CO _{2}$ from the body cells) and induce ageing.

Multiple choice evs nutritious food minerals and vitamins nutrition and diet role of various nutrients

Rennin acts on milk protein and changes

  1. Caesinogen into casein

  2. Caesin into paracaesin

  3. Caesinogen into paracaesin

  4. Paracaesin into caesinogen

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

Rennin is an enzyme secreted in the stomach that acts on the milk protein caseinogen and converts it into insoluble paracasein, which is subsequently precipitated by calcium ions to form curd. This is a key step in infant milk digestion.

Multiple choice evs nutritious food minerals and vitamins nutrition and diet role of various nutrients

In the complete absence of which the duodenal digestion of chime proteins not possible 

  1. Enterokinase

  2. Dil HCl

  3. Gastrin

  4. All the above

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

Enterokinase is the enzyme that activates trypsinogen into trypsin. Without trypsin, other pancreatic proteases cannot be activated, making protein digestion in the duodenum impossible.

Multiple choice evs nutritious food minerals and vitamins nutrition and diet role of various nutrients

Chilomicrons are

  1. Small fat globules coated with protein

  2. Protein molecules coated with fat

  3. Small granules found in gastric juice

  4. Aerobic microbes

  5. Neural signals that stimulate intestinal secretions

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

Chylomicrons are lipoprotein particles that consist of triglycerides, phospholipids, cholesterol, and proteins. They transport dietary lipids from the intestines to other locations in the body.