Essential Vitamins Quiz

Vitamins are organic molecules or a set of closely related molecules called vitamers that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function.

Essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism in sufficient quantities for survival, so they must be obtained through the diet.

Vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others.

<p>Vitamers are groups of related molecules, and most vitamins are not single molecules but groups of vitamers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The term 'vitamin' does not include the three other groups of essential nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids.</p> Signup and view all the answers