Q. What is polygenic control of drugs?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Drug controlling seen in twins
Medicinal Chemistry 1 MCQs and Notes
Q. Which one of the following is not an environmental agent to decrease drug metabolizing ability?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Cigarette smoke
Q. What is the name of the process where due to nutritional deficiency an enzyme content is decreased?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Methacholine
Q. What is the name of the process where the enzyme amount is decreases due to a decrease in enzyme synthesis?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Altered physiology
Q. What is the name of the process where structurally different compounds interact with the enzyme and prevent the metabolism of the drug?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Repression
Q. What is the name of the process where structurally same compounds compete for the same site on an enzyme to inhibit that?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
Non-competitive inhibition
Q. Alcohol is the inducer for which drug?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Competitive inhibition
Q. Which of the following drugs has self -induction to stimulate their own metabolism?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Pentobarbital
Q. What is enzyme induction?
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
The phenomenon of increasing drug distribution drugs and chemicals
Q. In comparison with children and young adults, elderly adults tend to have a reduced capacity to metabolize drugs.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
True