PNG 1159 Intro to Pharmacology Exam Practice Questions and Answers
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2024/2025
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2024/2025
PNG 1159 Intro to Pharmacology Exam
Practice Questions and Answers
What are sources of drugs? - Ans:-Plants, animals, inorganic, synthetic
What are the three types of drug names? - Ans:-chemical name, generic name, trade name
What is the chemical name? - Ans:-Describes the drug's chemical compo...
What is the chemical equivalent of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-Contains the same amount of identical compound
What are plasma drug levels? - Ans:✔✔-Amount of drugs in blood plasma, can vary 1000x when the
same drug is administered to the same two people of the same weight
What are some variabilities to plasma levels? - Ans:✔✔-Tolerance, gender, weight, drug to drug and food
in the system, disease stage, genetics, pregnancy. The same drug can have different onset times and
intensity
What is dissolution of a drug? - Ans:✔✔-How fast or slow a drug dissolves and is absorbed into the
system
What is pharmacokinetics? - Ans:✔✔-the study of what the body does to the drug
What is pharmacodynamics? - Ans:✔✔-The study of what the drug does to the body and the drugs
mechanism of action
What is pharmacotherapeutics? - Ans:✔✔-Putting pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics and
pharmacodynamics into clinical practice
What is pharmacogenomics? - Ans:✔✔-the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs
What are the steps of pharmacokinetics? - Ans:✔✔-absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion
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