15 Questions
What are the three categories set out by the Misuse of Drugs Act?
Class A, Class B, Class C
Which act controls drugs in the UK and refers to them as controlled drugs?
Misuse of Drugs Act
What is the maximum penalty for possession with intent to supply under the Misuse of Drugs Act?
Life imprisonment
How many schedules with their own restrictions are set out in the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001?
Five schedules
What does Class C represent under the Misuse of Drugs Act?
Drugs with moderate capacity for harm
Who introduced the concept of chemoton?
Tibor Gánti
In what year did Tibor Gánti formulate the concept of chemoton?
1971
According to Gánti, what are the fundamental properties that life should have?
Metabolism, self-replication, and a bilipid membrane
What is the chemoton considered as by some researchers?
A significant contribution to the origin of life
How many subsystems does the chemoton contain according to the text?
Three subsystems
Chemoton is a short for 'chemical ______'
automaton
The chemoton was suggested to be the original ancestor of all ______
organisms
The chemoton is a protocell that grows by ______
metabolism
The chemoton reproduces by biological ______
fission
The chemoton contains three subsystems: an autocatalytic network for metabolism, a lipid bilayer for structural organisation, and a replicating machinery for ______
information
Study Notes
Misuse of Drugs Act
- The Misuse of Drugs Act sets out three categories of controlled drugs
- The Act controls drugs in the UK, referring to them as controlled drugs
- The maximum penalty for possession with intent to supply under the Misuse of Drugs Act is life imprisonment
Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001
- The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 set out five schedules with their own restrictions
Classification of Drugs
- Class C represents a category of controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act
Chemoton
- Tibor Gánti introduced the concept of chemoton
- Gánti formulated the concept of chemoton in 1971
- According to Gánti, the fundamental properties that life should have are self-maintenance, self-reproduction, and evolvability
- The chemoton is considered a protocell by some researchers
- The chemoton contains three subsystems: an autocatalytic network for metabolism, a lipid bilayer for structural organisation, and a replicating machinery for genetic reproduction
- Chemoton stands for "chemical automaton"
- The chemoton is suggested to be the original ancestor of all life
- The chemoton is a protocell that grows by self-reproduction
- The chemoton reproduces by biological autocatalysis
Test your knowledge of the Misuse of Drugs Act in the UK, which sets out regulations for controlled drugs and their classifications under Class A, Class B, and Class C. Learn about the laws governing controlled substances in the UK.
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