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Who said the quote: "Everything is poison…it is only the dose that makes it not a poison."? (short name)
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Paracelsus
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What does xenobiotic mean?
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Foreign to life.
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What three levels do toxicologists study?
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Enzyme, cellular, and systemic
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How wide is the synaptic cleft?
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50 nm
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Which enzyme performs hydrolysis on an acetylcholine?
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Acetylcholinesterase
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How many breaks can acetylcholinesterase perform in one second?
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25,000
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How many impulses can a synapse transmit per second?
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1,000
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Which enzyme puts together the broken pieces together?
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Choline acetyltransferase
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What does the neurotransmitter dopamine do?
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It makes you feel good.
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Which neurotransmitter sets the circadian rhythms?
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Melatonin
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Which neurotransmitter makes your brain "peaceful"?
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Serotonin
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Which neurotransmitter does Prozac inhibit?
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Serotonin
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What does Histamine do?
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Causes inflammation and causes the blood vessels to dilate.
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What color poison is Parathion?
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red
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What color poison is Tabun?
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red
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What color poison is Curare?
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blue
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What color poison is Bungarotoxin?
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blue
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What color poison is Succinylcholine?
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blue
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What is Succinycholine used for?
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muscle relaxant
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What is physostigmine used for?
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It is used to improve memory of Alzheimer patients and treat glaucoma and myasthenia gravis.
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Which bacteria causes Tetanus?
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Clostridium tetani
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Which bacteria causes Botulinus toxin?
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Clostridium botulini
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What fixes the thymine dimers in DNA?
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DNA Photolase
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Which disease results in low amounts of DNA PHotolase?
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Xeroderma Pigmentosum
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What do X-rays do to the body?
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They create radicals.
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What is Paraquat?
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A herbicide that attacks the electrons in photosynthesis. It is also deadly to animals.
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Which Greek committed suicide right before his death sentance?
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Demosthenes
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What was the first medical book?
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Ebers Papyrus
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How did Sumerians keep their data stored?
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On Cuneiform tablets
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What does LSD stand for?
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Lysergic acid diethylamide
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What are the two types of ergot?
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Gangrenous and convulsive
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What is Latin for "holy fire"?
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ignis sacer
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What is the term for "ringing in the ears"?
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Tinnitus aurium
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Who ran the church that people with ergot went to and became cured?
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Hugh the Great
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Which port was Peter the Great stopped at on the Volga River?
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Constantinople
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Which drug stops excessive bleeding in childbirth?
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Cafergot
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What is used as a treatment for migranes?
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Ergotamine
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aka cafergot
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WHo is the father of toxicology?
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Bonaventura Orfila
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What incident resulted in the founding of the FDA?
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The mascara incident
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Which drug caused terrible birth defects?
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Thalidomide
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Which drug damaged heart valves?
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Fen-Phen
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What company ran WWII for the Germans?
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IG Farben
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Who wrote "Silent Spring"?
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Rachel Carson
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What part of the eye is attached to the brain?
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Optic nerve
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