Bio Chapter 7 - Vitamins

Question 1

Vitamin General

Answer 1

13, organic molecules

Can function as coenzymes or precursors for coenzymes. Vitamins contain no calories.

Question 2

Fat Soluble Vitamins

Answer 2

A, D, E, K

Question 3

Vitamin A

Answer 3

Vision, cell membrane health, Skin

Question 4

Vitamin D

Answer 4

promotes growth of healthy bones and teeth

Question 5

Vitamin K

Answer 5

Blood clotting

Question 6

Vitamin E

Answer 6

Antioxidant helps protect cell membranes, stored in liver and fatty tissues

Question 7

Water soluble Vitamin

Answer 7

Vitamin C and a series known as the vitamin B complex. Most water soluble vitamins are components of coenzymes.

Question 8

Vitamin C

Answer 8

Needed for proper collagen formation. It’s a reducing agent in the hydroxlyation reaction when proline becomes hydroxyproline in collagen.

Question 9

Vitamin Deficiency and popular disease

Answer 9

Deficiency of :
Vitamin C: Scurvy
Vitamin D: Rickets
B3 (Niacin): Pellagra

Question 10

How does Vitamin E work?

Answer 10

Radical scavenger. It takes highly reactive radicals and destroys it.

Question 11

Minerals

Answer 11

Inorganic nutrients such Cu, Zn, Molybdenum, Cr, and Na.
Found in all body cells and their conc. are regulated by homeostatic mechanism that balance their storage, use, and excretion.

Question 12

Where is iodine most highly concentrated in the body?

Answer 12

Thyroid. It need its to make its hormones T3 and T4.