Question

check my answer please :)

Answer 1

Christiaan Eijkman shared the Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins. Eijkman went to Java to isolate the pathogen causing beriberi, an illness that appeared to be contagious as it was common in prisons and among ship crews. Eijkman noticed that chickens fed a diet of white rice also suffered from a similar disorder. When the chickens were fed a diet of red rice, the chickens quickly recovered. What can Eijkman safely infer at this point from his observations?

Humans with symptoms similar to those of chickens should change their diet.
White rice contains little nutritional value for humans and chickens.
Beriberi is most certainly not a pathogen.
Diet may be the cause of beriberi, but more research is needed. <---- my answer

Answer 2

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Answer 3

its correct

Answer 4

oh okay as long as i get a good grade my overall is an 89% and im almost to an A

Answer 5

The idea here is to take the observations and get the most conservative possible interpretation - what's the most you can say, given that information? Does this indicate that beriberi is 'most certainly not' due to a pathogen? Personally, I wouldn't go that far; perhaps some component of the red rice acts as a natural anti-pathogenic agent, or perhaps eating red rice helps the host become resistant to the beriberi pathogen. You'd need to do a bit more testing to find out. How about the statement that white rice contains little nutritive value? What evidence do you see for such a broad statement? The middle two statements are interesting, but think about the 'changing diet' one for a moment - you know that in chickens changing from white to red rice is associated with recovery. What you don't know is the diet of the humans who suffer from beriberi. You also still don't know what causes beriberi, and although it's probably true that humans should change their diets, that's not too helpful since you're not sure how they should change them.
It seems to me that the third answer is the most useful and the safest conclusion that can be taken from the observations, right?

Answer 6

that's for a different question....

Answer 7

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120309030118AA22TGV

Answer 8

its the same question you asked

Answer 9

sorry i was looking at a different question and thought you were answering it lol oops and sorry if i offended you in anyway; so anyways it's D?

Answer 10

yeah and im not offended...just gave you the link to show you that it is the same question

Answer 11

okay thanks!

Answer 12

np

Answer 13

have anything else you need help with?