Formative Questions

Question 1

Which of the following is used in HIV therapy?

Answer 1

Saquinavir

Question 2

Which of the following is used in the treatment of UTIs?

Answer 2

Nitrofurantoin

Question 3

Serious infections with MRSA require treatment with what?

Answer 3

IV Vancomycin

Question 4

Serious infection with a gram negative organism such as E-coli should be treated with what?

Answer 4

IV gentamicin

Question 5

Serious systemic fungal infections require treatment with intravenous what?

Answer 5

Amphotericin B

Question 6

The pathogenesis of systemic type III hypersensitivity requires what?

Answer 6

Immune complex formation

Question 7

Neurophil polymorphs are a major component of what?

Answer 7

Acute inflammatory response

Question 8

Fibroblasts produce what?

Answer 8

Collagens

Question 9

What does histamine do in acute inflammation?

Answer 9

Relax vascular smooth muscle

Question 10

What do hypoxia impede?

Answer 10

Tissue healing

Question 11

GTN is administered by sublingual route to avoid what?

Answer 11

First Pass Metabolism

Question 12

A drug trial in which neither patient nor doctor is aware what treatment the patient is taking is called a what?

Answer 12

Double blind trial

Question 13

A drug trial in which data is collected from case records after treatment is given is called what?

Answer 13

Retrospective trial

Question 14

A drug trial in which patients take both treatments being tested one after the other is called what?

Answer 14

Cross-over trial

Question 15

A drug trial in which patients are allotted to treatment groups using random number generation is called what?

Answer 15

Randomised trial

Question 16

The adapter molecule that acts between the coded amino acid and the mRNA in the process of transcription and translation?

Answer 16

tRNA

Question 17

Only one side of DNA is replicated during what process?

Answer 17

Transcription

Question 18

A process that requires cooperation and coordination between mRNA, rRNA and tRNA is what?

Answer 18

Protein synthesis

Question 19

mRNA is used to form an amino acid sequence during the process of?

Answer 19

Translation

Question 20

The primary site of protein synthesis is where?

Answer 20

The ribosome

Question 21

The X chromosome can be transmitted by fathers to who?

Answer 21

Daughter but not sons

Question 22

The Y chromosome can only be transmitted by who?

Answer 22

Fathers

Question 23

Retinoblastoma is caused by what?

Answer 23

Loss of a tumour suppressor gene

Question 24

Leukaemia is a malignant tumour of what?

Answer 24

A white blood cell

Question 25

What kind of tumour is liposarcoma?

Answer 25

Malignant tumour of fatty tissue

Question 26

What is the name given to a malignant tumour of the glandular epithelium?

Answer 26

Adenocarcinoma