Vitamins and Minerals Objective Type Questions and Answers

Questions

21 Different types of Vitamins are:

A Fat-Soluble

B Water-Soluble

C Both A and B

D None of the above

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Answer: Both A and B

22 Name the Vitamin that protects us from Pellagra disease?

A Vitamin B5

B Vitamin B7

C Vitamin B3

D None of the above

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin B3

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23 Vitamin A was discovered in which year?

A 1910

B 1912

C 1922

D 1927

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Answer: 1912

24 Name the vitamin which are essential for the health of the brain?

A Vitamin B6

B Vitamin B9

C Vitamin B12

D All the above

View Answer

Answer: All the above

25 The Haemorrhagic disease of new born is caused to the deficiency of

A Vitamin K

B Vitamin B12

C Vitamin A

D Vitamin B6

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin K

26 To which of the following families do folic acid and panthothenic acid belong?

A Vitamin B complex

B Vitamin C

C Vitamin K

D Vitamin A

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin B complex

27 Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

A Vitamin C- Scurvy

B Vitamin B2- Pellagra

C Vitamin B2- Pernicious Anaemia

D Vitamin B6- Beri beri

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Answer: Vitamin B2- Pellagra

28 Which of the following is mismatched?

A Vitamin A- Xerophthalmia

B Vitamin D- Rickets

C Vitamin C-Scurvy

D Vitamin K- Beriberi

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin K- Beriberi

29 The effect of of a light impulse in the retina is:

A Isomerization of 11 cis-retinal to trans- retinal

B Isomereization of trans- retinal to cis- retinol

C Reduction of 11 cis- retinol to cis- retinol

D Isomerization ofcis- retinol to tran-retinol

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Answer: Isomerization of 11 cis-retinal to trans- retinal

30 Two vitamins whose derivatives are involved in the transformation of serine to glycine are:

A Folic acid and vitamin B6

B B12 and nicotinamisde

C B6 AND B12

D Folic acid and B12

View Answer

Answer: Folic acid and vitamin B6

31 Which one of the following nutrients is a precursor for a co-factor that carries one carbon groups of different oxidation states:

A Methioinine

B Thiamine

C Folic acid

D Biotin

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Answer: Folic acid

32 Which one of the following would be seen in a patient with a severe thiamine deficiency:

A Decreased transketolase activity in RBCs

B Decreased serum levels of pyruvate and lactate

C Increased clotting time of blood

D Low red cell tranamknase activity

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Answer: Decreased transketolase activity in RBCs

33 The nutritional role of the carotenoids lies in their conversion in vivo to:

A Ascorbic acid

B Vitamin A

C Cobalamine

D Folic acid

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin A

34 Children with autism and other disorders with mental disability are often put on megavitamin supplements despite no scientific evidence of benefit. Although most vitamins are harmless in excess, merely being excreted in urine, vitamin A can be toxic. Which of the following statements regarding vitamin A is true:

A It is not an essential vitamin

B It is component of rhodopsin

C It is related to tocopherol

D It is derived from ethanol

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Answer: It is component of rhodopsin

35 Which one of the following is definitely associated with a human disease when deficient?

A Arsenic

B Lead

C Antimony

D Zinc

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Answer: Zinc

36 A high plasma calcium level decreases intestinal absorption of calcium by:

A Stimulating the secretion of paratharmone

B Decreasing the synthesis of cholecalciferol

C Inhibiting the secretion of paratharmone

D None Of These

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Answer: Inhibiting the secretion of paratharmone

37 Consumption of iodized salt is recommended in:

A Patients with hyperthyroidism

B Goiter belt areas

C Pregnant women

D Patient with hypothyroidism

View Answer

Answer: Goiter belt areas

38 Retinol is the scientific name of which Vitamin?

A Vitamin A

B Vitamin D

C Vitamin K

D Vitamin C

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin A

39 Vitamin C is present in:

A Tomatoes

B Papaya

C Guava

D All of the above

View Answer

Answer: All of the above

40 Calcium deficiency in the body occurs in the absence of

A Vitamin C

B Vitamin A

C Vitamin E

D Vitamin D

View Answer

Answer: Vitamin D

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