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Villagers of Dadogaun are consuming maize as their major food, then they are likely to have deficiency of Tryptophan Tyrosine Threonine Lysine

Villagers of Dadogaun are consuming maize as their major food, then they are likely to have deficiency of
  1. Tryptophan
  2. Tyrosine
  3. Threonine
  4. Lysine

Grade:12th pass

1 Answers

Anjali Ahuja
askIITians Faculty 234 Points
4 years ago
Hello Student

Maize consists of a protein named Zein. If we go into the structural study of these proteins, they mainly are deficient in Tryptophan and lysine.

That makes option (1) and (4) both correct.

I hope it helps.

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