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A patient has pellagra. Interrogation revealed that he had lived mostly on maize for a long time and eaten little meat. This disease had been caused by the deficit of the following substance in the maize:

Answer options

  1. Histidine
  2. Proline
  3. Alanine
  4. Tryptophan
  5. Tyrosine
Correct answer

Tryptophan

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