A developmental disorder in humans called spina bifida is a neural tube defect linked to a maternal diet low in folate during pregnancy.

What does this suggest about the cause of spina bifida?

Video transcript

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So blank is a water soluble vitamin that is associated with a neural tube defect known as blank. Well, let's go over each of our answer choices so that we may solve the problem. Beginning by answer choice. A cappella gra remember that Villagra is going to have many symptoms such as dermatitis. This is not going to be a neural tube defects. So we're going to cancel it out. Then we have the Wernicke Korsakov syndrome. This Korsakov syndrome is going to be a neurological disorder. It is not going to be a neural tube defects. So we're going to cancel it as well. Then we have ascorbic acid and scurvy. Scurvy is related to a vitamin C deficiency and it has many symptoms such as gum disease and changes to the skin. However, this is not going to be a neural tube defect either. So we're going to cancel it out. So as it turns out, the only neural tube defect that we have a modern answer choices is going to be spin up and spin bifida is going to be caused by a deficiency in folic acid in the body which leads to this condition. So the correct answer choice here is going to be answer choice. I really hope this helps you and I hope to see you on the next one.