BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -In 2012 we celebrate the centenary of Dr Casimir Funk’s discovery of the ‘vitamine’. Funk was the first to suggest the existence of a family of organic substances that are essential for life, which the world now takes for granted. He was thus the godfather of the vitamin movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract. The discovery of the vitamins was a major scientific achievement in our understanding of health and disease. In 1912, Casimir Funk originally coined the term “vitamine". The major period of discovery began in the early nineteenth century and ended at the mid-twentieth century.

Detailed explanation-3: -1913: Vitamin A discovered The first vitamin to be discovered was Vitamin A in 1913. An English biochemist named Frederick Gowland Hopkins found unknown factors present in milk that were not fats, proteins, or carbohydrates, but were required to aid growth in rats.