Vitamin Matching Review Questions

Question 1

This vitamin deficiency causes Beriberi.

Answer 1

Thiamin.

Question 2

Milk and Cheese are good sources of:

Answer 2

Riboflavin and Cobalamin.

Question 3

What vitamin is not found in any grains, legumes, vegetables, or fruits?

Answer 3

Cobalamin.

Question 4

What vitamin(s) deficiency causes megaloblastic anemia?

Answer 4

Folate and Cobalamin.

Question 5

What vitamin deficiency causes irreversible nerve damage?

Answer 5

Cobalamin.

Question 6

What vitamin toxicity includes permanent numbness/tingling in fingers/toes?

Answer 6

Pyridoxine.

Question 7

What vitamin deficiency causes Pellagra?

Answer 7

Niacin.

Question 8

What vitamin is a cofactor in reactions involving amino acids?

Answer 8

Pyridoxine.

Question 9

What vitamin causes the deficiency disease ‘osteomalacia’?

Answer 9

Cholecalciferol.

Question 10

What vitamin can be found in good amounts in seeds/nuts and plant oils?

Answer 10

Alpha-tocopherol.

Question 11

What is active vitamin D?

Answer 11

Calcitriol.

Question 12

What vitamin deficiency causes hemolytic anemia?

Answer 12

Alpha-tocopherol.

Question 13

What vitamin toxicity involves skin rash, enlarged liver, increased risk bone fractures

Answer 13

Retinoic acid.

Question 14

What vitamins are not found in any food?

Answer 14

Calcitriol and 7-dehydrocholesterol.

Question 15

What vitamin supplements linked to increased risk of lung cancer in smokers, and no benefit to non-smokers?

Answer 15

Beta-carotene.

Question 16

What vitamin is found in green leafy veggies, works with Vitamin D for calcium absorption from GI tract?

Answer 16

Phylloquinone.

Question 17

What vitamin needs are partly met by colonic microbial synthesis?

Answer 17

Menaquinone.