NSD 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pyridoxine, Riboflavin, Folic Acid
22 Oct 2014
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Vitamins are ______________________________ organic (contain carbon atoms) nutrients needed in very tiny amounts. There are many forms of most of the vitamins (some are more potent than others). Some of the vitamins occur as precursors or provitamins so that once inside the body they are changed into a more active form. Common characteristics of water soluble vitamins: all vitamins are needed for growth and more are needed during growth. Enzymes need helpers called ____________ a part of most _________________ is one of the b vitamins, so b vitamins work in every cell to help produce energy from carbo, fat or protein, to help make dna, rna (in every cell and contain information to correctly duplicate that cell), and to help make protein and new cells. seen unless: deficiency diseases: totally malnourished rarely.
