Match the vitamins listed in column I with the diseases caused due to their deficiency in column II. Column I Column II P. Vitamin A (i) Pellegra Q. Vitamin B_2 (ii) Rickets R. Vitamin D (iii) Ariboflavinosis S. Vitamin B_12 (iv) Night blindness (v) Pernicious anaemia Choose the CORRECT combination

Correct Answer is : P(iv); Q(iii); R(ii); S(v)

KVPY 2020-21 SA Exam Previous Papers

Question : 77 of 80

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Match the vitamins listed in column I with the diseases caused due to their deficiency in column II.

	Column I		Column II
P.	Vitamin A	(i)	Pellegra
Q.	Vitamin $B_2$	(ii)	Rickets
R.	Vitamin D	(iii)	Ariboflavinosis
S.	Vitamin $B_12$	(iv)	Night blindness
		(v)	Pernicious anaemia

Choose the CORRECT combination

P(iv); Q(ii); R(iii); S(v)
P(i); Q(ii); R(iv); S(iii)
P(iv); Q(iii); R(ii); S(v)
P(iii); Q(iv); R(v); S(i)

Validate

Solution:

. Deficiency of Vitamin A causes night blindness because vitamin A is responsible for synthesis of visual pigment.
Vitamin

B_2

is also called riboflavin. Ariboflavinosis is a deficiency disease due to inadequate intake of riboflavin and characterised by sores on the mouth. Deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in childhood and osteomalacia in adulthood. Deficiency of vitamin

B_12

causes pernicious anaemia.

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