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The Nutritional Application of Vitamins to Human and Animal Health
Chapter Quiz
1
Generally, vitamins are grouped into what main categories?
A)
organic and inorganic
B)
essential and nonessential
C)
mineral-linked and nonmineral-linked
D)
fat soluble and water soluble
E)
nitrogen containing and nonnitrogenous
2
Insufficiency of which vitamin is linked to night blindness and xeropthalmia?
A)
D
B)
A
C)
B
12
D)
niacin
E)
pantothenic acid
3
The condition rickets is related to deficiency of what vitamin?
A)
D
B)
A
C)
B
12
D)
Niacin
E)
pantothenic acid
4
What is the precursor to Vitamin D?
A)
xanthophyll
B)
7 dehydro-cholesterol
C)
carotene
D)
keratin
E)
L-lysine
5
What is the precursor to Vitamin A?
A)
xanthophyll
B)
7 dehydro-cholesterol
C)
carotene
D)
keratin
E)
L-lysine
6
Which vitamin can be provided as a supplement originating from irradiated animal sterol or from irradiated plant sterol?
A)
niacin
B)
riboflavin
C)
C
D)
D
E)
E
7
The "tocopherols" refer to what vitamin?
A)
A
B)
D
C)
E
D)
K
E)
B
12
8
"Curled-toe paralysis" in chickens is related to deficiency of what vitamin?
A)
niacin
B)
B
12
C)
riboflavin
D)
thiamin
E)
K
9
Which vitamin is critical in the formation of prothrombin in the liver to support normal blood clotting?
A)
D
B)
K
C)
thiamin
D)
niacin
E)
B
12
10
Which vitamin appears to be protective against certain spinal diseases in human babies?
A)
folic acid
B)
niacin
C)
pantothenic acid
D)
A
E)
D
11
The typical method of expressing vitamin A and D potency in food or feed products is what expression?
A)
milligrams per kilogram
B)
milligrams per pound
C)
grams per pound
D)
percent
E)
International Units
12
Vitamin D
2
and D
3
have equal value in preventing deficiency symptoms in dogs and pigs, but D
2
is not appropriate for feeding to which species?
A)
chicken
B)
cat
C)
cow
D)
human
E)
rabbits
13
Feeding large quantities of raw eggs to dogs can cause biotin deficiency because avidin in the egg binds this B-vitamin.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
14
Pellagra is linked to a deficiency in niacin.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
15
The compound dicoumarol found in spoiled sweet clover produces factors that specifically depress the action of Vitamin D.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
16
Ascorbic acid is another name for Vitamin E.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
17
Vitamins might correctly be defined as organic compounds required in minute amounts for normal growth and maintenance of life.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
18
Nicotine is the same as nicotinic acid, the precursor of the vitamin niacin.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
19
"Bioassay" methods for vitamins involve live animal feeding studies.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
20
Ruminants receive adequate quantities of many of the B-vitamins from fermentation products of microbes in the rumen and large intestine.
A)
TRUE
B)
FALSE
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