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Is a diet consisting mainly of rice an adequate diet? Why or why not.

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A diet consisting mainly of rice is not an adequate diet because it is deficient in lysine and threonine which are essential amino acids necessary for growth and maintenance of health. Therefore, their deficiency has to be supplemented by other protein rich diets like pulses, etc.
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  2. Name the vitamin which is vital for the clotting of blood?

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  12. Differentiate between anomers and epimers.

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  13. Deficiency of which vitamin causes the disease pernicious anaemia ?

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  17. What are the products of hydrolysis of sucrose ?

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  18. What are the products of hydrolysis of lactose ?

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  19. Write the name of the linkage joinining two amino acids.

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  20. Which of the components of starch is water soluble ?

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