KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FNDH 620 EXAM 3
EXAM Q&A 2026 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◍ What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?
Answer:calcium
◍ What does parathyroid hormone do? It's a true/false question about
what it inhibits and activates Answer:it activates the release of more
calcium into the blood and increased calcium absorption (know the
forms of vit D in the process)
◍ Hemochromatosis causes the toxicity of what? Answer:iron
◍ Oyster shell calcium supplements are a risk for lead consumption?
True or false? Answer:true
◍ Is iodine active in growth hormone or thyroid hormone?
Answer:active in thyroid hormone
, ◍ Know about vitamin K shots Answer:Given at birth to aid in blood
clotting. Vitamin K doesn't cross the placenta well from mother to baby
and the baby's intestinal bacteria/lack of hasn't produced any.
◍ Cretinism Answer:iodine deficiency, deaf, decreased growth, mental
retardation
◍ Is riboflavin in FAD, TTP, PEP, or all of the above? Answer:FAD
◍ Why is folate an essential vitamin? Answer:Because it is a water
soluble vitamin and cannot be stored in the body, needed for gene
expression and DNA
◍ How vitamin E is excreted Answer:part of bile????
◍ How potassium, sodium, etc. levels are balanced? Answer:renal
excretion
◍ Pernicious anemia develops suddenly. True or false? Answer:False
◍ Folate deficiency masks the deficiency of... Answer:vitamin B12
◍ What is the principal transport vehicle for vitamin E in the blood?
EXAM Q&A 2026 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◍ What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?
Answer:calcium
◍ What does parathyroid hormone do? It's a true/false question about
what it inhibits and activates Answer:it activates the release of more
calcium into the blood and increased calcium absorption (know the
forms of vit D in the process)
◍ Hemochromatosis causes the toxicity of what? Answer:iron
◍ Oyster shell calcium supplements are a risk for lead consumption?
True or false? Answer:true
◍ Is iodine active in growth hormone or thyroid hormone?
Answer:active in thyroid hormone
, ◍ Know about vitamin K shots Answer:Given at birth to aid in blood
clotting. Vitamin K doesn't cross the placenta well from mother to baby
and the baby's intestinal bacteria/lack of hasn't produced any.
◍ Cretinism Answer:iodine deficiency, deaf, decreased growth, mental
retardation
◍ Is riboflavin in FAD, TTP, PEP, or all of the above? Answer:FAD
◍ Why is folate an essential vitamin? Answer:Because it is a water
soluble vitamin and cannot be stored in the body, needed for gene
expression and DNA
◍ How vitamin E is excreted Answer:part of bile????
◍ How potassium, sodium, etc. levels are balanced? Answer:renal
excretion
◍ Pernicious anemia develops suddenly. True or false? Answer:False
◍ Folate deficiency masks the deficiency of... Answer:vitamin B12
◍ What is the principal transport vehicle for vitamin E in the blood?
