Answer: Vitamin D.
- A Vitamin A
- B Vitamin B
- C Vitamin C
- D Vitamin D
Correct answer: D. Vitamin D
Explanation: Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets in children (soft, deformed bones) and osteomalacia in adults. Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption from the gut. Sources: sunlight (skin synthesis), fish, egg yolk, fortified foods.
The Plasmodium parasite needs both hosts: the female Anopheles mosquito injects sporozoites while biting (infecting the human liver and RBCs, causing the malaria fever cycle), then picks up gametocytes from an infected person's blood, completing the parasite's sexual stage inside the mosquito.
Concept context
Pathogens, infectious diseases, non-infectious diseases, drugs, cancer, and public health. High NEET importance.