Ch7 Minerals And Water

Question 1

How are minerals different from vitamins?

Answer 1

Minerals have simple organic elements and vitamins have complex organic structures

Minerals are structural and metabolic and vitamins and only metabolic

Question 2

Is vitamins or minerals more easily absorbed?

Answer 2

Vitamins are more easily absorbed

Question 3

Are vitamins or minerals more easily destroyed in cooking?

Answer 3

Vitamins

Question 4

What are the major minerals?

Answer 4

Calcium
Phosphorus 
Magnesium 
Sodium 
Potassium 
Chloride
Sulfur

Question 5

What are the trace elements

Answer 5

Iron
Iodine
Zinc
Copper
Manganese 
Choromium
Selenium
Fluoride
Molybdenum

Question 6

Keeps bones and teeth strong

Answer 6

Calcium

Question 7

Bone and teeth energy metabolism

Absorption of glucose
Transport of fatty acid

Answer 7

Phosphorus

Question 8

Also helps bones and teeth and general metabolism and smooth muscle action

Answer 8

Magnesium

Question 9

The major guardian of the body water outside the cells

Helps regulate acid base balances

Answer 9

Sodium

Question 10

Mineral important for muscle activity

Answer 10

Potassium

Question 11

Mineral that Helps control water balance and acid balance

Answer 11

Chloride

Question 12

Mineral Found in protiens in the body such as cartilage bone hair and nails

Answer 12

Sulfur

Question 13

Mineral Hemoglobin and mile globin synthesis and oxygen transport

Answer 13

Iron

Question 14

Mineral Synthesis of thyroxine which regulates cell metabolism

Answer 14

Iodine

Question 15

Mineral Essential coenzyme component involved with DNA and RNA with metabolism and protein synthesis

Answer 15

Zinc

Question 16

Mineral

Associated with Iron an enzyme systems hemoglobin synthesis

Answer 16

Copper

Question 17

Mineral

Enzyme component in general metabolism

Answer 17

Magnesium

Question 18

Mineral

Associated with glucose metabolism

Answer 18

Chromium

Question 19

Mineral

Component of enzyme gluthathione

Antioxidant with vitamin E

Answer 19

Selenium

Question 20

Mineral

Component of oxidase enzymes

Answer 20

Molybdenum

Question 21

Mineral

Accumulates in bones and teeth increases resistance to resorbtion

Answer 21

Fluoride

Question 22

What are the functions of our body water?

Answer 22

Medications are dissolved in body fluids

Evaporation of water from the skin regulates body temperature

Question 23

What is water used for in clinical applications?

Answer 23

Thirst /Dehydration
High protein intake
Intense physical activity
Medications
High fiber intake
Cystic fibrosis
Uncontrolled diabetes

Question 24

Body water is divided into what two major compartment?

Answer 24

Extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid

Question 25

When the water is outside the cells it is known as what?

Answer 25

Extracellular fluid

Question 26

Water is inside the cells it is known as what?

Answer 26

Intracellular fluid

Question 27

What two forces control the distribution of body water?

Answer 27

The number of solute’s or particles in a solution

The membranes that separate our water compartments

Question 28

This controls body fluid compartments, they are free in solution and carry in electrical charge

Answer 28

Electrolytes

Question 29

When do the mechanisms such as osmosis diffusion active transport in Pino cytosis occur?

Answer 29

When water and particles move across the separating membranes

Question 30

This hormone controls the re-absorption of water by the kidneys, in times of actual loss of water this hormone is released to retain fluid

Answer 30

Antidiuretic hormone

Question 31

This is the sodium conserving hormone but also asked Kurtz secondary control over body water

Answer 31

Aldosterone