Which water-soluble vitamin found in various foods, including liver, milk, eggs and fish, helps to keep your body's blood and nerve cells healthy?
Vitamin B12
The correct answer is Vitamin B12.
Without adequate Vitamin B12, the myelin sheath can break down, leading to neurological symptoms like tingling, numbness, difficulty walking, and memory problems. Vitamin B12 is also necessary for the synthesis of DNA and RNA, which are essential for cell growth and division, including the production of healthy red blood cells. This explains why a deficiency impacts both blood and nerve cells. Note: All mathematical expressions and symbols, if present in a numerical problem, would be rendered using LaTeX code, for example, writing E=mc^2.
Elephantiasis disease, in which there is chronic inflammation of the organs, is caused by which of the following worms?
Which one among the following is a deficiency disease?
One of the most infectious human ailments, the common cold is caused by which of the following group of viruses?
Typhoid fever could be confirmed by which of the following tests?
______ is a vestigial hollow tube that is closed at one end and is attached at the other end to the cecum, a pouch-like beginning of the large intestine into which the small intestine empties its contents.
Communicable diseases are indirectly transmitted by way of what are known popularly as '5 Fs'. Which of the following does NOT figure among them?
The exaggerated response of the ______ system to certain antigens present in the environment is called allergy.
Which of the following terms, also known as hypersensitivity, is used to describe a condition in which the human body has an exaggerated response to a substance (e.g. food or drug)?
The fear of food/eating is called:
Lack of Vitamin D can lead to ________, in which weakness is observed in children whereas aches and pains are observed in adults owing to calcium-deficiency in bones, called osteocalcin.
Consider the following statements regarding diabetes:
1. It is caused by the oversecretion of insulin by pancreas.
2. The glucose level increases in the blood.
3. The patient urinates frequently, loses weight and becomes lethargic.
How many of the statements given above are correct?