IMPORTANT SOLVED QUESTION AND ANSWER ABOUT VITAMINS IN BIOCHEMISTRY

TOPIC: VITAMINS 

📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER

Q.1. Define vitamins.

Ans. Vitamins have been defined as organic compounds occurring in natural foods either as such or as utilizable “precursors”, which are required in minute amounts for normal growth, maintenance and reproduction, for normal nutrition and health.

Q.2. How the name vitamin derived?

Ans. The first vitamin isolated from rice polishing was found to be an “amine” and as it was found to be vital for growth, it was called as “vitamine”, Later on “e” was omitted.