Minerals: Trace Minerals

Question 1

hemoglobin and myoglobin formation

Answer 1

iron

Question 2

found only in meat and is more efficiently absorbed by the body

Answer 2

heme iron

Question 3

comes from iron-containing foods

Answer 3

non-heme iron

Question 4

anemia

Answer 4

iron deficiency

Question 5

hemosiderosis

Answer 5

excessive in iron

Question 6

formation of hemoglobin

Answer 6

copper

Question 7

depigmentation of skin and hair, CNS abnormalities, hypotonia, hypothermia, chronic microcytic anemia, skeletal mineralization in infants and children

Answer 7

copper deficiency

Question 8

wilson’s disease

Answer 8

copper exessive

Question 9

needed for the production of thyroid hormone. required for the synthesis of thyroxine

Answer 9

iodine

Question 10

hyperthyroidism, goiter, cretinism, myxedema

Answer 10

iodine deficiency

Question 11

enlargement of the thyroid gland

Answer 11

goiter

Question 12

caused by insufficient iodine intake of the mother during pregnancy which deprives the fetal of the nutrient and the baby born becomes a creitin

Answer 12

cretinism

Question 13

adults who have had problems with low iodine intake throughout their childhood and adolescence

Answer 13

myxedema

Question 14

activator of a number of metabolic reactions, increases storage of thiamine

Answer 14

manganese

Question 15

constituents of Vit b12, RBC formation, normal functioning of all cells

Answer 15

cobalt

Question 16

pernicious anemia

Answer 16

cobalt deficiency

Question 17

polycythemia or increase in the number of RBC and hyperplasia of bone marrow

Answer 17

cobalt excess

Question 18

cellular functions, RNA, hormone, wound healing, and helps maintain a normal sense of taste

Answer 18

zinc

Question 19

slow growth, alopecia, disturbances in the keratinization process in the skin and esophagus, hypospermia, delayed sexual maturation, white cell defects, night blindness

Answer 19

zinc deficiency

Question 20

integral part of the various enzyme molecules

Answer 20

molybdenum

Question 21

headache, irritability, night blindness, letargy, coma, abnormal metabolism of sulfur containing amino acids, abnormal degradation of nucleic acids

Answer 21

molybdenum deficiency

Question 22

forms more stable compound in the dentine and enamel of the teeth, treatment of osteoporosis

Answer 22

Fluorine