BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -There is, of course, a certain irony to this categorization, since rickets was known throughout the nineteenth century as “the English disease” in tribute to its remarkable prevalence in England’s gloomy and heavily polluted industrialized cities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rickets is a condition in children where there is abnormal softening of the bones due to lack of minerals to strengthen it. It is also known as osteomalacia in adults.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children, usually because of an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency. Rare inherited problems also can cause rickets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Deficiency of vitamin C in the diet, due to lack of fresh fruit and vegetables, causes scurvy. Deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Most vitamin D is synthesized in the body. This process requires exposure of the skin to ultraviolet light.