The nurse is performing a nutritional assessment on an 80-year-old patient. the nurse knows that physiologic changes can directly affect the nutritional status of the older adult and include:

The nurse should know the physiological changes that an elderly could inhabit due to late age, the nurse would likely assess the elderly has a slow motility in gastrointestinal, has decrease absorption in the gastrointestinal, has taste sensitivity and has decrease in visual acuity where they sight is not as clear as before.

answer: the correct option is d. enzyme

lactase and carbonic anhydrase are the examples of enzymes.

lactase is an enzyme, which is present in the small intestine of mammals. it in the digestion of the disaccharide, lactose ( milk sugar) by converting it into two monosachharide, which are glucose and galactose.

carbonic anhydrase is present in the red blood cells. this enzyme plays significant role in the transport of co₂. it in the conversion of co₂ and h₂o into carbonic acid, which is then dissociated into bicarbonate ions and hydrogen ions.

actually the answer is c