PHARMACOLOGY NURS 251
MODULE 3 PORTAGE LEARNING
2026 TEST PAPER VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Where all is Pharmacology included?
Answer: Toxicology, Food sciences, agriculture, and medicine
◉ What are the three main sources of drugs today?
Answer: Natural Sources
Chemical Synthesis
Biotechnology
◉ From the roots of belladonna plant
Answer: Atropine
◉ From the leavew of the purple foxglove
Answer: Digitalis
◉ From the seeds of the opium poppy
Answer: Morphine
◉ What category drug is Atropine
,Answer: Anticholinergic
◉ What category drug is Cocaine
Answer: Local Anesthetic
◉ What category drug is Digoxin
Answer: Cardiac Agent
◉ What category drug is Ephedrine
Answer: Sympathomimetic
◉ What category drug is Morphine
Answer: Analgesic
◉ What category drug is Papaverine
Answer: Smooth Muscle Relaxant
◉ What category drug is Pilocarpine
Answer: Paraymphathomimetic
◉ What Plant produces Atropine
Answer: Atropa Belladonna
,◉ What Plant produces Cocaine
Answer: Erythroxylum Coca
◉ What Plant produces Digoxin
Answer: Digitalis Purpurea
◉ What Plant produces Ephedrine
Answer: Ephedra Sinica
◉ What Plant produces Morphine
Answer: Papaver Somniferum
◉ What Plant produces Papaverine
Answer: Papaver Somniferum
◉ What plant produces Pilocarpine
Answer: Pilocarpus Jaborandi
◉ What drug is used to treat Breast Cancer?
Answer: Paclitaxel (Taxol)
◉ What is Paclitaxel (Taxol) derived from?
Answer: Taxus baccata
, ◉ What do animals provide to drugs?
Answer: Hormones
◉ Drugs derived from Hogs/Pigs
Answer: Porcine
◉ Drugs derived from cattle
Answer: Bovine
◉ Minerals contained in some drugs
Answer: Calcium
Magnesium
Silver Salts
◉ Two antacids that contain Calcium and Magnesium Hydroxides.
Answer: Tums and Mylanta
◉ Antimicrobial agent used in dressings for burn patients that contain
silver salts
Answer: Silver Sulfadiazine (Silvadene)
◉ Drugs that are synthesized from laboratory chemicals
MODULE 3 PORTAGE LEARNING
2026 TEST PAPER VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Where all is Pharmacology included?
Answer: Toxicology, Food sciences, agriculture, and medicine
◉ What are the three main sources of drugs today?
Answer: Natural Sources
Chemical Synthesis
Biotechnology
◉ From the roots of belladonna plant
Answer: Atropine
◉ From the leavew of the purple foxglove
Answer: Digitalis
◉ From the seeds of the opium poppy
Answer: Morphine
◉ What category drug is Atropine
,Answer: Anticholinergic
◉ What category drug is Cocaine
Answer: Local Anesthetic
◉ What category drug is Digoxin
Answer: Cardiac Agent
◉ What category drug is Ephedrine
Answer: Sympathomimetic
◉ What category drug is Morphine
Answer: Analgesic
◉ What category drug is Papaverine
Answer: Smooth Muscle Relaxant
◉ What category drug is Pilocarpine
Answer: Paraymphathomimetic
◉ What Plant produces Atropine
Answer: Atropa Belladonna
,◉ What Plant produces Cocaine
Answer: Erythroxylum Coca
◉ What Plant produces Digoxin
Answer: Digitalis Purpurea
◉ What Plant produces Ephedrine
Answer: Ephedra Sinica
◉ What Plant produces Morphine
Answer: Papaver Somniferum
◉ What Plant produces Papaverine
Answer: Papaver Somniferum
◉ What plant produces Pilocarpine
Answer: Pilocarpus Jaborandi
◉ What drug is used to treat Breast Cancer?
Answer: Paclitaxel (Taxol)
◉ What is Paclitaxel (Taxol) derived from?
Answer: Taxus baccata
, ◉ What do animals provide to drugs?
Answer: Hormones
◉ Drugs derived from Hogs/Pigs
Answer: Porcine
◉ Drugs derived from cattle
Answer: Bovine
◉ Minerals contained in some drugs
Answer: Calcium
Magnesium
Silver Salts
◉ Two antacids that contain Calcium and Magnesium Hydroxides.
Answer: Tums and Mylanta
◉ Antimicrobial agent used in dressings for burn patients that contain
silver salts
Answer: Silver Sulfadiazine (Silvadene)
◉ Drugs that are synthesized from laboratory chemicals
