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BHU PMT BHU PMT (Mains) Solved Paper-2007

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    In certain pans of India, muscular dystrophy is commonly found amongst the poor peof because they eat cheap pulse from the planrl

    A)  Pisum safiuvm                 

    B)  Lathyrus sadvus                    

    C)  Cicer arietinum            

    D)  Phaseolus mungo                  

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

                 The seeds of khesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) contain a neurotoxin ie, \[\text{ }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ -}\]oxalyl amino alanine \[\text{( }\!\!\beta\!\!\text{ -OAA)}\] which causes muscular distrophy and the disease is known as Lathyrism.


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