Biology PYQ 177 of 227 · Human Health, Diseases & Immunity

Deficiency of Iodine causes:

  1. ANight Blindness
  2. BCancer
  3. CGoitre
  4. DOsteoporosis

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Correct answer: (c) Goitre

Explanation

Iodine is essential for the thyroid gland to make thyroxine hormone.

Iodine deficiency enlarges the thyroid, causing goitre, and may also lead to cretinism and hypothyroidism.

Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and calcium deficiency causes osteoporosis, not iodine.

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