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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

The major cause of diarrhoea in children is

  1. a bacterial infection

  2. a viral infection

  3. antibiotics

  4. food poisoning.
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Diarrhoeal diseases are a group of intestinal infections, including food poisoning. The causative agents are mainly bacteria such as Staphylococus, Clostridium, Escherichia coli, Shigella, Salmonella etc.

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

Richmond-Lang effect is 

  1. The effect of kinetins in delaying senescence

  2. The effect of colines on root and shoot formation

  3. The effect of traumatic acid in wound formation

  4. None of the above
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Cytokinins delay the senescence of leaves and other organs by controlling protein synthesis and mobilization. Reported by "Richmond and Lang" in 1957 working on "Xanthium leaves".

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 person suffering from deficiency of visual pigment rhodopsin is advised to take

  1. Guava and ripe Banana

  2. Radish and Potato

  3. Apple and Grapes

  4. Carrot and ripe Papaya
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Rhodopsin is a pigment in the retina that requires Vitamin A for its synthesis. Carrots and papaya are rich sources of beta-carotene, which the body converts to Vitamin A.

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

Enterogasterone is

  1. Hormone secreted by duodenal mucosa

  2. Hormone secreted by gastric mucosa

  3. Enzyme produced by gastric mucosa

  4. Product of endocrine gland related to digestion
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Enterogastrone is a hormone secreted by the duodenal mucosa that inhibits gastric secretion and motility when fat is present in the duodenum.