Unit VI (VITAMINS)

Question 1

Xerophthalmia; night blindness; hyperkeratosis; sk. lesions and bone remodeling; poor growth; reproductive failures; reduced egg production and hatchability

Answer 1

Vitamin A deficiency

Question 2

Rickets (growing period); Osteomalacia (adults); soft egg shells and reduced egg production and hatchability

Answer 2

Vitamin D Deficiency

Question 3

mm. dystrophy; encephalomalacia; exudative diathesis; reproductive failures; steatites

Answer 3

Vitamin E Deficiency

Question 4

Spontaneous hemorrhages and increased blood clotting time with lowered prothrombin levels

Answer 4

Vitamin K Deficiency

Question 5

Polyneuritis and convulsions (head retraction in chickens); cardiovascular disturbance; beriberi (humans); anorexia and
emaciation

Answer 5

Vitamin B1 Deficiency

Question 6

Ecodermal lesions; dermatitis and hair loss; curled toe paralysis in birds; moon blindness in horses; leg troubles in pigs

Answer 6

Vitamin B2 Deficiency

Question 7

3 D’s-dermatitis, diarrhea and dementia; pellagra in humans; irritability; Inflammation and ulceration of the mouth, tongue and digestive tract (black tongue in dog)

Answer 7

Vitamin B3 Deficiency

Question 8

Dermatitis, hairloss, grey hair; spastic gait, goose-stepping or posterior incoordination and paralysis; enteritis; poor growth and reproduction

Answer 8

Vitamin B5 Deficiency

Question 9

Convulsions; neuritis and hyperirritability; hypochromic- microcytic anemia; increased excretion of xanthurenic acid

Answer 9

Vitamin B6 Deficiency

Question 10

macrocytic, normochromic anemia with megaloblastic marrow; neurological disturbances; hatching problems in chicks; reduced growth

Answer 10

Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Question 11

Dermatitis and hairloss (spectacle eye in rats and mice); reduced growt; perosis in chicks

Answer 11

Biotin Deficiency

Question 12

fatty liver and kidney degeneration; poor reproduction and lactation in swine; perosis in chicks

Answer 12

Choline Deficiency