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Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Which one does not take part in breakdown of starch

  1. Invertase

  2. Lipase

  3. Amylase

  4. Diastase
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Amylase, Diastase, and Invertase are enzymes involved in the breakdown of carbohydrates (starch or sugars). Lipase is an enzyme specifically responsible for the breakdown of fats (lipids).

Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

X and Y are diseases in infants. X is produced by deficiency of proteins and calories. Y is produced by protein deficiency unaccompanied by calories deficiency. X and Y are respectively 

  1. Kwashiorkor, Marasmus

  2. Diabetes, Goitre

  3. Goitre, Diabetes

  4. Marasmus, Kwashiorkor

  5. Kwashiorkor, Goitre
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Marasmus (X) is caused by a deficiency of both proteins and calories. Kwashiorkor (Y) is caused by protein deficiency alone. Therefore, X is Marasmus and Y is Kwashiorkor.

Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

A patient is advised to specially consume more meat, lentil, milk and eggs in diet when the patient suffers from

  1. Kwashiorkor

  2. Scurvy

  3. Rickets

  4. Anaemia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Meat, lentils, milk, and eggs are high-protein foods. A patient is advised to consume these to treat protein deficiency, which manifests as Kwashiorkor.

Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Inadequate protein in diet causes Kwashiorkor. Odema is related to protein deficiency of

  1. Insulin

  2. Gamma globulin

  3. Glucagon

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

Albumin is a major plasma protein that maintains oncotic pressure. When protein levels are low, albumin levels drop, leading to fluid leakage into tissues, which causes edema (swelling).

Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Why hands and feet get swollen with accumulated fluid (oedema) in persons suffering from deficiency of proteins in kwashiorkar? 

  1. Plasma proteins serve as a source of proteins for tissue cells

  2. Albumin and globulins retain water in the blood plasma by their osmotic effects
  3. Albumin and globulins transport many substances such as thyroxinbe and $Fe3+$ in combination with them.

  4. Tissue cells utilise plasma proteins for forming their cellular proteins.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 In kwashiorkor, there is a decrease in the human serum albumin levels. This decrease leads to a deficiency in the protein levels of an individual. This causes accumulation of fluids in the tissue which further causes swelling. This swelling is most common in the abdominal region. The swelling can mainly be attributed to the retention of water in the blood plasma by the osmotic pressure created because of the decreased number of albumins and globulins.

So, the correct answer is 'Albumin and globulins retain water in the blood plasma by their osmotic effects'.


Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Which disease does not occur in infants younger than six months?

  1. Kwashiorkor

  2. Kwashiorkor and marasmus

  3. Marasmus

  4. Jaundice
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Marasmus is due to protein-energy deficiency that can occur any time if the infant is not provided with sufficient milk. Kwashiorkor mostly occurs due to nonutilisation of protein in the diet caused by aflatoxin accumulation.

Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Inadequate protein intake leads to Kwashiorkor . The subsequent oedema is most closely related to inadequate synthesis of which protein ?

  1. Gamma globulin

  2. Glucagon

  3. Insulin

  4. Albumin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
  • Kwashiorkor, a disease of protein malnutrition, causes low level of blood proteins (serum albumins), which cause poor return of tissue fluid through capillaries. It leads to the swelling of tissues through  increase of its tissue fluid  which results into oedema.
  • So,(D) albumin is the correct option. 
Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

'Hunger signs" in plants are_____________

  1. Symptoms due to lesser water absorption in plants

  2. Sympotms due to poor photosynhesis in plants

  3. Deficiency sympoms of particular mineral nutrients

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • According to the criteria of essentiality, there are 16 essential elements for plant growth. Hunger signs are shown by plants due to the deficiency of one or more of these mineral nutrients.

So, the correct option is 'Deficiency symptoms of particular mineral nutrients'.
Multiple choice biology food and human health balanced diet and malnutrition balanced and unbalanced food digestive disorders diseases caused by changes in lifestyle diseases and toxic substance health and its maintenance

Tea yellow is a disease of tea plants produced due to the deficiency of-

  1. Nitrogen

  2. Sulphur

  3. Potassium

  4. Phosphorus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

  • The yellows disease of tea, the nature of which has hitherto remained obscure, has caused serious losses to planters in Nyasaland. It is characterized by a progressive degeneration of the bush, in which the leaves become chlorotic, small, uprolled and of stiff texture, and are finally shed.It is caused due to the deficiency of Nitrogen. 

So the correct option is 'Nitrogen'.