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Chemical Coordination and Integration question

2013 · Q9
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Chemical Coordination and Integration question

2013 · Q9

NEETBiologyChemical Coordination and IntegrationMCQ+4 / −1
A pregnant female delivers a baby who suffers from stunted growth, mental retardation, low intelligence quotient and abnormal skin. This is the result of
  1. A
    cancer of the thyroid gland
  2. B
    oversecretion of pars distalis
  3. C
    deficiency of iodine in diet
  4. D
    low secretionn of growth hormone.
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Correct answer: C

Iodine is essential for the normal rate of hormone synthesis in the thyroid. Deficiency of iodine in our diet results in hypothyroidism and enlargement of the thyroid gland, commonly called goitre. Hypothyroidism during pregnancy causes defective development and maturation of the growing baby leading to stunted growth (cretinism), mental retardation, low intelligence quotient, abnormal skin, deaf-mutism, etc.

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