WGU: D116 Advanced Pharmacology
Unit 2 Questions with complete
solution 2026
Pharmacokinetics - correct answer ✔The Study of drug movement throughout the body includes 4
basic processes: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion.
Absorption - correct answer ✔The drug's movement from the blood to the interstitial space of tissues
and from there into cells.
Metabolism - correct answer ✔The enzymatically mediated alteration of drug structure.
Excretion - correct answer ✔The movement of drugs and their metabolites out of the body.
Elimination - correct answer ✔The combination of metabolism and excretion
Therapeutic Index - correct answer ✔The range of doses at which a medication is effective without
adverse events.
Half-life - correct answer ✔The time required for the amount of a drug int the body to decrease by
50%.
Pharmacodynamics - correct answer ✔The study of the biochemical and physiologic effects of drugs
on the body and the molecular mechanisms by which those effects are produced.
Agonist - correct answer ✔Molecules that activate receptors.
Unit 2 Questions with complete
solution 2026
Pharmacokinetics - correct answer ✔The Study of drug movement throughout the body includes 4
basic processes: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion.
Absorption - correct answer ✔The drug's movement from the blood to the interstitial space of tissues
and from there into cells.
Metabolism - correct answer ✔The enzymatically mediated alteration of drug structure.
Excretion - correct answer ✔The movement of drugs and their metabolites out of the body.
Elimination - correct answer ✔The combination of metabolism and excretion
Therapeutic Index - correct answer ✔The range of doses at which a medication is effective without
adverse events.
Half-life - correct answer ✔The time required for the amount of a drug int the body to decrease by
50%.
Pharmacodynamics - correct answer ✔The study of the biochemical and physiologic effects of drugs
on the body and the molecular mechanisms by which those effects are produced.
Agonist - correct answer ✔Molecules that activate receptors.
