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What does pharmacology study?

  • Interactions between chemicals and non-living organisms
  • Interactions between different organisms
  • Interactions between living organisms and physical environment
  • Interactions between living organisms and chemicals (correct)

Which area of pharmacology studies the effects of a drug on biological systems?

  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Pharmaceutical synthesis
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Pharmacodynamics (correct)

What does pharmacokinetics study?

  • Effects of biological systems on a drug (correct)
  • Chemical composition of drugs
  • Synthesis of pharmaceuticals
  • Biological response to drug therapy

What distinguishes pharmacology from pharmacy?

<p>Pharmacology deals with research and discovery of chemicals, while pharmacy focuses on dispensing medications (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are pharmaceuticals considered to have?

<p>Medicinal properties (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does pharmacognosy study?

<p>Physical, chemical, biochemical, and biological properties of drugs of natural origin (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are crude drugs?

<p>Dried, unprepared material of plant, animal, or mineral origin used for medicine (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who first used the term 'pharmacognosy'?

<p>Johann Adam Schmidt (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the word 'pharmacognosy' mean?

<p>The study of drugs of natural origin (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did 'pharmacognosy' originally define during the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century?

<p>The branch of medicine which deals with drugs in their crude, or unprepared form (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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