{"id":8,"date":"2022-05-18T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:44:29","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/","title":{"rendered":"KIDS IQ ( E \u2013 LITERATURE )"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Docosahexaenoic acid<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>DHA<\/strong>) is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omega-3_fatty_acid\">omega-3 fatty acid<\/a>\u00a0that is a primary structural component of the human\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brain\">brain<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebral_cortex\">cerebral cortex<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skin\">skin<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retina\">retina<\/a>. In physiological literature, it is given the name 22:6(n-3). It can be synthesized from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha-linolenic_acid\">alpha-linolenic acid<\/a>\u00a0or obtained directly from maternal milk (breast milk), fatty fish, fish oil, or algae oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DHA&#8217;s structure is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carboxylic_acid\">carboxylic acid<\/a>\u00a0(-<em>oic acid<\/em>) with a 22-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_chain\">carbon chain<\/a>\u00a0(<em>docosa-<\/em>\u00a0derives from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek\">Ancient Greek<\/a>\u00a0for 22) and six (<em>hexa-<\/em>)\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cis-trans_isomerism\">cis<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double_bond\">double bonds<\/a>\u00a0(<em>-en-<\/em>);\u00a0with the first double bond located at the third carbon from the omega end. Its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trivial_name\">trivial name<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>cervonic acid<\/strong>\u00a0(from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin\">Latin<\/a>\u00a0word\u00a0<em>cerebrum<\/em>\u00a0for &#8220;brain&#8221;), its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Systematic_name\">systematic name<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong><em>all-cis<\/em>-docosa-4,7,10,13,16,19-hexa-enoic acid<\/strong>, and its shorthand name is\u00a0<strong>22:6(n\u22123)<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nomenclature_of_fatty_acids\">nomenclature of fatty acids<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docosahexaenoic acid\u00a0(DHA) is an\u00a0omega-3 fatty acid\u00a0that is a primary structural component of the human\u00a0brain,\u00a0cerebral cortex,\u00a0skin, and\u00a0retina. In physiological literature, it is given the name 22:6(n-3). It can be synthesized from\u00a0alpha-linolenic acid\u00a0or obtained directly from maternal milk (breast milk), fatty fish, fish oil, or algae oil. DHA&#8217;s structure is a\u00a0carboxylic acid\u00a0(-oic acid) with a 22-carbon chain\u00a0(docosa-\u00a0derives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KIDS IQ ( E \u2013 LITERATURE )&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidsiq.grvt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}