Introduction To Pharmacognosy

Question 1

Which nationality did clay models of man was used?

Answer 1

Babylonians

Question 2

Who wrote “De Materia Medica”

Answer 2

Dioscorides

Question 3

What is the name of the scroll used by Egyptians?

Answer 3

Papyrus Ebers

Question 4

Who practiced the science of embalming

Answer 4

Egyptians

Question 5

Who descrived the method of preparibg formulas containing plant amd animal drug

Answer 5

Galen

Question 6

What is the most widely used opium alkaloid

Answer 6

Codeine

Question 7

Who introduced the term Pharmacognosy?

Answer 7

C.A. Seydler

Question 8

Came from botanical sources

Answer 8

Biological

Question 9

Who started phytochemistry?

Answer 9

Paracelsus

Question 10

Salicin is made up of?

Answer 10

Glycoside

Question 11

Undissolved portions of the drug that remains after the extract

Answer 11

Marc

Question 12

Solvent or liquid mixture which dissolves the constituent

Answer 12

Menstruum

Question 13

It results to partial or complete substitution

Answer 13

Improper collection

Question 14

What are the processes of preparation of drugs

Answer 14

-Collection, Harvesting, Drying and Garbling

Question 15

What process destroy intact principle

Answer 15

Curing

Question 16

Process of prosucing secondary metabolite

Answer 16

Biogenesis

Question 17

Debasement of article

Answer 17

Adulteration

Question 18

Any substandard drug/ article regardless of cause

Answer 18

Inferiority

Question 19

Unintentional addition

Answer 19

Admixture

Question 20

Substandard drug in which quality was impaired by fungi/bacteria

Answer 20

Spoilage

Question 21

True adulteration

Answer 21

Sophistication