BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

BIOLOGY

VITAMINS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which vitamin helps in the production of red blood cells and supplies oxygen to cells?
A
iron
B
protein
C
copper
D
calcium
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Your body needs vitamin B12 to make red blood cells. In order to provide vitamin B12 to your cells: You must eat foods that contain vitamin B12, such as meat, poultry, shellfish, eggs, fortified breakfast cereals, and dairy products.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is a condition in which your body does not have enough healthy red blood cells, due to a lack (deficiency) of vitamin B12. This vitamin is needed to make red blood cells, which carry oxygen to all parts of your body.

Detailed explanation-3: -Your body needs vitamin B12 to make healthy red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Since your body doesn’t make vitamin B12, you have to get it from the foods you eat or from supplements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Erythroblasts require folate and vitamin B12 for proliferation during their differentiation. Deficiency of folate or vitamin B12 inhibits purine and thymidylate syntheses, impairs DNA synthesis, and causes erythroblast apoptosis, resulting in anemia from ineffective erythropoiesis.

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