7. What is folic acid? Why is
the anemia caused by
deficiency of folic acid known
as megaloblastic anemia?

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The folic acid ( ionized it is
folate) is a that participates
in synthesis and duplication DNA
and for reason it is for
cell division. there are not
folic acid in with great turnover,
red blood cells, have their
production .

In folic acid precursor cells
(reticulocytes) would originate
erythrocytes ( blood cells) begin
division but the is very slow
the cytoplasm growth normal.
So the became abnormally large,
typical feature of kind of anemia
megaloblastic anemia.

Megaloblastic can be caused
by vitamin B12 ()
deficiency since this is
important for division too. Both
of anemia are deficiency
anemias.

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