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FNDH 620 Final Exam | 100% Correct | Verified | 2024 Version True or False Vitamins: - cannot be made in the body - noncaloric - required in small amounts (mg and mcg) - TRUE Vitamins: - cannot be made in the body - noncaloric - required in small amounts (mg and mcg) What 3 forms can vit...

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Vitamins:

- cannot be made in the body

- noncaloric

- required in small amounts (mg and mcg) - ✔✔TRUE



Vitamins:

- cannot be made in the body

- noncaloric

- required in small amounts (mg and mcg)



What 3 forms can vitamin A take? - ✔✔- retinol (alcohol)

- retinal (aldehyde)

- retinoic acid (acid form from retinal)



What form of vitamin A is normally found in blood and tissues? - ✔✔Retinyl Palmitate



What form of vitamin A is found in plants? - ✔✔Previtamin A - carotenoid structure that includes the
carotenes and xanthophylls

- found in plants

- needs to be converted to active vitamin A



What is the most potent form of vitamin A? - ✔✔Beta carotene

,Where can retinyl esters be found? - ✔✔Animal Products *only*



Where can vitamin A be found? - ✔✔Fortified milk and milk products



Where can previtamin A carotenoids be found? - ✔✔Plant sources - orange and dark green vegetables



Vitamin A containing micelles form and traverse the enterocyte plasma membrane by what type of
diffusion? - ✔✔Passive Diffusion



What two things are needed in the digestion of vitamin A? - ✔✔Bile and Fat



Beta-carotene and other carotenoids can be converted to retinol by what means? - ✔✔Beta-carotene
and other carotenoids can be converted to retinol by cleavage of the central double bond



When beta-carotene is cleaved, how many molecules of retinal does it make? - ✔✔1 beta-carotene = 2
retinal



Retinyl, retinyl esters, and carotenoids are packaged into what and transported where? - ✔✔Retinyl,
retinyl esters, and carotenoids are packaged in *chylomicrons* and transported in the *lymphatic
system*.



Vitamin A and carotenoids are metabolized where and as what? - ✔✔Vitamin A and carotenoids are
metabolized in the liver as chylomicron remnants.



Retinoic acid is absorbed and transported to which organ bound to what protein? - ✔✔Retinoic acid is
absorbed and transported to the liver bound to albumin.



The liver stores 90% of which vitamin? - ✔✔vitamin A



What are the functions of vitamin A & Carotenoids? - ✔✔- Improves vision

,- Cell differentiation & cell proliferative activity

- Fights cancer

- Development of embryo tissue

- Synthesis of glycoproteins

- Reproductive processes

- Antioxidant capacity

- Bone development and maintenance

- Provides immunity



How is vitamin A essential to our vision? - ✔✔- retinol is transformed into 11-cis retinal through a series
of reactions

- 11-cis retinal combines with the protein opsin forming rhodopsin

- Rhodopsin + light changes the conformation of the protein which begins a cascade of events leading to
the generation of an action potential

- This action potential sends neural impulses to the optic center of the brain translating it into images



What are the 2 nuclear receptors that work with vitamin A on a molecular level? - ✔✔RAR & RXR



Vitamin A is beneficial for all cancers but... - ✔✔lung cancer



Vitamin A is involved in sperm development and differentiation, without it, what happens? - ✔✔Without
RARγ, males are sterile



If a female is low or deficient in vitamin A, what could happen? - ✔✔deficiency: inability of implantation
of the egg



low: may allow implantation but may end in a miscarriage; various birth defects



Vitamin A is excreted in _____ & _____. - ✔✔Vitamin A is excreted in the bile (70%) and urine (30%).

, RDA of vitamin A for men - ✔✔900 mcg/day



RDA of vitamin A for women - ✔✔700 mcg/day



12 mcg beta-carotene = ??? mcg of retinol - ✔✔12 mcg beta-carotene = 1 mcg of retinol



Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of ___________ in children worldwide. - ✔✔Vitamin A
deficiency is the leading cause of *non-accidental blindness* in children worldwide.



Diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency - ✔✔- night blindness

- xerophthalmia

- bitot spots



Symptoms of vitamin A toxicity - ✔✔- decreased appetite

- dry, itchy, flaky skin

- headache

- hair loss

- bone/muscle pain

- ataxia

- nausea/vomiting

- dry mouth

- eye irritations

- conjunctivitis

- birth defects

- miscarriage

- learning difficulities



This unique vitamin is synthesized in the body with adequate sun exposure as well as it's ability to
function as a hormone. - ✔✔Vitamin D

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