What Is the Name for the Calorie-Deficiency Disease That Takes

question 13

Multiple Choice

What is the name for the calorie-deficiency disease that takes the form of extreme loss of muscle and fat?

• A) kwashiorkor
• B) marasmus
• C) protein-energy malnutrition
• D) protein-calorie malnutrition

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Definitions:

Flagella

Long, whip-like structures that protrude from the cell body of certain cells, such as bacteria and sperm, used for locomotion.

Photosynthetic

Relating to the process by which green plants and certain other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.

Amoebozoans

A group of eukaryotic organisms, mostly comprising amoebas, that move and feed by means of pseudopodia, which are temporary projections of cytoplasm.

Plasmodial Slime Molds

A group of protists that form a large, single-celled, multinucleate mass during part of their life cycle.