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Important Biology Questions for Railway and SSC Exam
Topic: Vitamins Short Notes and most Important MCQs
Vitamin was invented by F. G. Hopkins but the term vitamin was given by Funk. There are two types of vitamins – Water Soluble and Fat-soluble. Water Soluble Vitamins are B and C, whereas Fat-Soluble Vitamins are A, D, E and K
Vitamin A: Retinol
Source of Vitamin A: Milk, Cheeze, Egg, Fish Liver Oil, Green Vegetables.
Diseases: Night Blindness, Tod skin
Vitamin B and its types
Vitamin B1: Thiamin (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Beri Beri
Source of Vitamin B1: Ground Nut, dried chilly, pulses, rapeseed
Vitamin B2: Riboflavin (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Cracking od skin, Reddish eye etc.
Source of Vitamin B2: Milk, Meat, Veg
Vitamin B3: Nicotinamide (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Pallegra, 4D syndrome
Source of Vitamin B3: Groundnut, meat, tomato, potato, leafy vegetable.
Vitamin B5: Pantothenic Acid (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Whitening of hair, mentally retarded
Source of Vitamin B5: Liver, tomatoes, meat, milk, and egg.
Vitamin B6: Pyrodixine (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Anaemia
Source of Vitamin B6: Liver, meat, grains.
Vitamin B7: Biotin (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Paralysis
Source of Vitamin B7: All seasonal vegetables, cucumber, meat, egg, dairy products.
Vitamin B12: Cyanocobalamin (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Jaundice
Source of Vitamin B12: All citrus fruits, dairy products.
Vitamin C: Ascorbic Acid (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Scurby
Source of Vitamin C: Lemon, Orange, Tomato, Chilly
Vitamin D: Calciferol (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Rickets (Child), Osteomalacia (Adults)
Source of Vitamin D: Sunlight, Cod Liver Oil, Egg
Vitamin E: Tocopherol (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Less Fertility
Source of Vitamin E: Leafy vegetables, Dairy Products
Vitamin K: Phylloquinone (Scientific Name)
Diseases: Non-clotting of Blood
Source of Vitamin K: Soybean Oil, tomato
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS BASED ON VITAMINS
1. Scurvy is caused due to the deficiency of
(a) Vitamin B2 (b) Vitamin B12
(c) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Ascorbic acid [/su_highlight] (d) Glutamic acid
2. A vitamin which plays a vital role in the coagulating property of blood is
(a) Vitamin A (b) Vitamin D
(c) Vitamin E (d) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Vitamin K[/su_highlight]
3. Beri-Beri is caused due to
(a) Vitamin A (b) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Vitamin B[/su_highlight]
(c) Vitamin C (d) Vitamin D
4. Deficiency of which one of the following cause knock-knee, bow legs and pigeon chest in children
(a) Vitamin A (b) Vitamin B
(c) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Vitamin D[/su_highlight] (d) Vitamin D
5. Rickets is caused due to the deficiency of
(a) Vitamin A (b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C (d) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Vitamin D[/su_highlight]
6. Iodine deficiency in diet is known to cause
(a) Beri-Beri (b) rickets
(c) night-blindness (d) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]goiter [/su_highlight]
7. Bleeding gums is generally associated with a deficiency
(a) thiamine (b) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]ascorbic acid[/su_highlight]
(c) folic acid (d) vitamin E
8. Deficiency of vitamin E causes
(a) Beri- Beri (b) scurvy
(c) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]Antifertility [/su_highlight] (d) None of these
9. Vitamin A deficiency leads to a disease known as
(a) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]night-blindness[/su_highlight] (b) beriberi
(c) Scurvy (d) TV
10. The vitamins, which are soluble in water, are
(a) A and B (b) C and D
(c) [su_highlight background=”#4bef2d”]B and C [/su_highlight] (d) A and D
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