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Read the following and answer any given below:The D vitamins are group of sterols that have a hormone like function. Vitamin D occurs naturally in fatty fish, liver and egg -yolk. Vitamin D deficiency causes a net demineralization of bone, resulting in rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Rickets is characterized by the continued formation of the collagen matrix of bone, but incomplete mineralization resulting in soft, pliable bones. In osteomalacia, demineralization of pre-existing bones increases their susceptibility to fracture insufficient exposure to daylight and/or deficiencies in vitamin D consumption occurs predominantly in infants and the elderly. Vitamin D deficiency is more common in the northern latitudes, because less vitamin D synthesis occurs in the skin as a result of reduced exposure to ultraviolet light.(i) Which of the following is fat soluble vitamin a. Vitamin Cb. Vitamin D c. Vitamin B12 d. Vitamin B1(ii) In adults, vitamin D deficiency can causes a. Rickets b. Osteomalacia and Gout c. Tetany d. Osteomalacia (iii). Vitamin D is essential for a. Blood formation b. Skin formation c. Bone and teeth formation d. Liver formation (iv). Vitamin D deficiency is more common in the a. Eastern-latitudes b. Western-latitudes c. Northern-latitudes d. Southern-latitudes (v). Assertion: Vitamin D occurs naturally in Fatty-fish ,liver and egg-yolk. Reason: In our body Vitamin D synthesis takes place in skin. a. Both assertion and reason are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. b. Both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. c. Assertion is true but reason is false d. Both assertion and reason are false.

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(i) b. Vitamin D

(ii) d. Osteomalacia

(iii) c. Bone and teeth formation

(iv) c. Northern-latitudes

(v) b. Both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.



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