Vitamin D is known as anti-rachitic vitamin because it cures the deficiency disease called
Rickets
Beriberi
Xerophthalmia
Sterility
Correct Answer :
A. Rickets
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holozoic
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one germ one disease
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oxygen in large amounts
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cattle
human beings
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animal kingdom
neither
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pons
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Lamarck
Malthus
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atrophy of endocrine glands
inherited lack of an enzyme
nondisjuction of chromosomes
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liquid food
plant juice
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vitamin E
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Cat
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female anopheles mosquito
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