MCQ Medicinal Plants.docx

How long have people been using medicinal plants? A. Since prehistoric times. B. Since the Industrial Revolution. C. Since the 19th century. 2. Who documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De Materia medica, c. 60 AD? A. Hippocrates. B. Paracelsus...

How long have people been using medicinal plants? A. Since prehistoric times. B. Since the Industrial Revolution. C. Since the 19th century. 2. Who documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De Materia medica, c. 60 AD? A. Hippocrates. B. Paracelsus. C. Dioscorides. 3. In which year did morphine become one of the first drugs to be isolated from a plant? A. 1852. B. 1899. C. 1803. 4. What is the significance of the Doctrine of Signatures in herbal medicine? A. It is a compilation concerning approximately 500 plants. B. It maintains that the outward appearance of a plant gives an indication of the problems it would cure. C. It describes over 850 plant medicines. 5. How long have people been using medicinal plants? A. Since prehistoric times. B. Since the Middle Ages. C. Since the 18th century. 6. What percentage of the drugs behind the pharmacist\'s counter in the Western world are derived from plants that people have used for centuries? A. 80% B. 60% C. 20% 7. What did Frederich Serturner isolate from a plant in 1803? A. Morphine. B. Aspirin. C. Digoxin. 8. Who identified foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) as significant in treating dropsy and heart failure in 1785? A. Dr. William Withering. B. Paracelsus. C. Dioscorides. 9. Which Arabic botanist and pharmaceutical scientist wrote the Explanation of Dioscorides Book on Herbs? A. Galen. B. Theophrastus. C. Abdullah Ben Ahmad Al Bitar. 10. Who is known as the \'Father of Medicine\' and classified herbs in their essential qualities of hot and cold, moist and dry? A. Hippocrates. B. Aristotle. C. Theophrastus. 11. What is the definition of bioactive? A. Having an effect on a living organism. B. Being inactive and not affecting living organisms. C. Being present in plants but not influencing living organisms. 12. What are examples of bioactive compounds? A. Carotenoids. B. Fats. C. Sugar. 13. What does bioactivity refer to? A. Interaction with tissues to induce a positive biological reaction. B. Interaction with water. C. Interaction with plastics. 14. What are some biological activities of bioactive compounds? A. Toxic properties. B. Radioactive properties. C. Antioxidant properties. 15. What are examples of bioactive factors? A. Shrinking factors. B. Growth factors. C. Stagnation factors.