Practice Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions

Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics MCQs

Chapter: Absorption


1. The process by which molecules diffuse from a region of higher
concentration to a region of lower concentration and no external energy is
expended is called
A. Passive diffusion
B. Active transport
C. Pore transport
D. Facilitation diffusion

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Answer: : A

2. Which law states that ‘the rate of diffusion is proportional to both the
surface area and concentration difference and is inversely proportional to
the thickness of the membrane’?
A. Fick’s Law
B. Avagadro’s Law
C. Hooke’s Law
D. Pascal’s Law

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Answer: : A

3. Which of the following is a not mechanism of drug absorption through
GIT
A. Pore transport
B. Active transport
C. Endocytosis
D. Metastasis

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Answer: : D

4. The process of engulfing of particulate material is called
A. Pinocytosis
B. Phagocytosis
C. Convective transport
D. Facilitated diffusion

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Answer: : B

5. Which of the following process is also called “cell drinking”?
A. Pinocytosis
B. Phagocytosis
C. Convective transport
D. Active tr

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Answer: : A

6. The absorption of drugs like (quaternary ammonium compounds,
sulphonic acid) are explained by
A. Ion pair transport
B. convective transport
C. active transport
D. Facilitated diffusion

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Answer: : A

7. Fick’s law is used for study of
A. Dissolution rate
B. Disintegration rate
C. Dissociation rate
D. Diffusion rate

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Answer: : D

8. The delivery of a drug through the skin is known as
A. Sublingual
B. Transdermal
C. Inhalation
D. Buccal

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Answer: : B

9. Which route of drug administration shows 100% Bioavailability?
A. Oral
B. Intravenous
C. Rectal
D. Topical

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Answer: : B

10. If drug administered by Intravenous route appears in feaces, it implies
that the drug
A. Undergo first pass metabolism
B. Undergoes enterohepatic recycling
C. It is not completely absorbed
D. It is not completely metabolized

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Answer: : B