Vitamins-Fat Soluble

Question 0

What vitamin is stored in the liver but has a precursor stored in fat?

Answer 0

Vitamin A

Question 1

What is the vitamin found in liver, fish oil and in orange & yellow plant material?

Answer 1

Vitamin A

Question 2

What is vitamin A used for in the body?

Answer 2

Cell synthesis and vision

Question 3

What pigment is responsible for rods and sight in dim light?

Answer 3

Rhodopsin

Question 4

What pigment is responsible for comes and sight in colour and bright light?

Answer 4

Iodopsin

Question 5

A deficiency in what causes night blindness?

Answer 5

Vitamin A

Question 6

What vitamin can be toxic but it’s precursor is not?

Answer 6

Vitamin A

Question 7

What is the precursor of vitamin A?

Answer 7

Carotenes

Question 8

What are the three species of animals that have a vitamin A requirement?

Answer 8

Cats, marine birds and SOME mammals

Question 9

What are the three species of animals that do not require vitamin A in their diet?

Answer 9

Dogs, foxes and mink

Question 10

What are the two vitamin D derivatives?

Answer 10

D3 - cholecalciferol

D2 - ergocalciferol

Question 11

Where does cholecalciferol (D3) come from?

Answer 11

UV light on plants

Question 12

Where does ergo calciferol come from?

Answer 12

UV light on animal skin

Question 13

What vitamin aids in calcium and phosphate deposition and resorption in bones and teeth?

Answer 13

Vitamin D

Question 14

Where is vitamin D stored?

Answer 14

In the liver and fat (same as vitamin A)

Question 15

A deficiency in what vitamin causes rickets?

Answer 15

Vitamin D

Question 16

What does Rickets cause and what type of animal does it effect?

Answer 16

Soft bones in young animals

Question 17

A deficiency in what vitamin causes osteomalacia?

Answer 17

Vitamin D

Question 18

What does osteomalacia cause and what type of animal does it effect?

Answer 18

Brittle bones in adults

Question 19

What organ activates vitamin D?

Answer 19

The kidney

Question 20

When is vitamin D required in the diet?

Answer 20

When there is insufficient exposure to uv light, in polar regions, for burrowing animals, nocturnal animals and animals that stay indoors

Question 21

What vitamin is essential for amphibians, birds, and reptiles?

Answer 21

Vitamin D

Question 22

What vitamin acts as an antioxidant, prevents the formation of peroxide des and maintains integrity of cellular and sub cellular membranes by preventing lipid peroxidation?

Answer 22

Vitamin E

Question 23

What is the only place vitamin E is stored?

Answer 23

Fat

Question 24

Name the vitamin whose deficiency is responsible for nutritional muscular dystrophy specifically in rats

Answer 24

Vitamin E

Question 25

A deficiency in what vitamin causes infertility in birds by affecting fertility in makes and improper fetal development in females?

Answer 25

Vitamin E

Question 26

What vitamin K derivative is found in dark green plants?

Answer 26

K1 - phyloquinone

Question 27

What vitamin K derivative is made from guy bacteria?

Answer 27

K2 - menaquinone

Question 28

What vitamin K derivative is synthetic?

Answer 28

K3 - menadione

Question 29

Wha vitamin assists in blood clotting?

Answer 29

Vitamin K

Question 30

There is minimal storage of what vitamin?

Answer 30

Vitamin K

Question 31

Warfarin is an inhibitor of what vitamin causing a deficiency?

Answer 31

Vitamin K

Question 32

A deficiency in vitamin K causes?

Answer 32

Delayed blood clot formation

Question 33

What are the 4 fat soluble vitamins?

Answer 33

A, D, E, K