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

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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A Correct answer
Explanation

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

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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A Correct answer
Explanation

Enterogastrone is a hormone secreted by the duodenal mucosa that inhibits gastric secretion and motility when fat is present in the duodenum.

Multiple choice biology constitutes of diet role of vitamins functions and principal sources of vitamins and minerals digestive disorders

Insufficient quantity of vitamins in diet affect directly formation of all except 

  1. NAD

  2. FAD

  3. Flavin mononucleoide

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

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is a co-enzyme. It is required for the fundamental biological process that make life possible. It is called dinucleotide because it consists of two nucleotides joined together through their phosphate groups.

So, the correct option is 'NAD'.

Multiple choice biology constitutes of diet role of vitamins functions and principal sources of vitamins and minerals digestive disorders need for nutrients

Which of the following vitamins are water soluble?

  1. Vit A, Vit B

  2. Vit B, Vit C

  3. Vit C, Vit D

  4. Vit A, Vit C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Vitamins which can dissolve in water are called water-soluble vitamins. Water-soluble vitamins include vitamin-C and vitamin-B because they remove the toxins from our body through urine. Therefore, they are not stored in our body and should be taken on a daily basis through the food we eat.
So, the correct option is 'Vit-B, Vit-C'
Multiple choice biology constitutes of diet role of vitamins functions and principal sources of vitamins and minerals digestive disorders

Vitamins are - 

  1. Inorganic substances and can't be synthesized by animals.

  2. Inorganic substances and can be synthesized by animals.

  3. Organic substances which cannot mostly be synthesized by animals.

  4. Organic substances which can mostly be synthesized by animals.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Vitamins are the organic substances that can not be synthesized by animals and obtained through diet. Examples are vitamin A, B, C, D, E, K.
So, the correct option is C.
Multiple choice biology constitutes of diet role of vitamins functions and principal sources of vitamins and minerals digestive disorders need for nutrients

Which of the following vitamins is an main antioxidant?

  1. $A$
  2. $B _6$
  3. $D$
  4. $K$
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The three major antioxidant vitamins are beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E. Beta carotene is an antioxidant that gets converted to vitamin A and plays a very important role in health. It's responsible for the red, yellow, and orange coloration of some fruits and veggies.

Vitamin A acts as an antioxidant within the body that scavenges harmful oxygen free radicals.
So, the correct answer is 'A'.

Multiple choice biology constitutes of diet role of vitamins functions and principal sources of vitamins and minerals digestive disorders need for nutrients

Identify the mis-matched pair.

  1. Fatigue, mental depression - Biotin

  2. Delayed dentition, knock-knees - Tocoferol

  3. Diarrhoea, loss of leucocytes - Folic acid

  4. Photophobia, red and sore tongue - Riboflavin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Delayed dentition and knock-knees are symptoms of vitamin D deficiency (rickets), not tocopherol (vitamin E). The other pairs correctly link deficiency symptoms with their respective vitamins.