ETX 10 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What are some extrinsic vulnerabilities of exposure that children experience more
relative to adults? You can choose more than one.
Correct! Children crawl on the ground
Correct! Children put items in their mouth
Children breathe more for their size
Children have more permeable skin
Children have more of a permeable blood-brain barrier
- Children crawl on the ground
- Children put items in their mouth
What are some intrinsic susceptibilities to toxicity that children experience relative to
adults? You can choose more than one.
Correct! Children breathe more for their size
Correct! Children eat more for their size
Correct! Children have more a permeable blood-brain barrier
Correct! Children have more permeable skin
Children excess nasal filtration
- Children breathe more for their size
- Children eat more for their size
- Children have more a permeable blood-brain barrier
- Children have more permeable skin
What drug used to prevent morning sickness resulted in children born with missing
thumbs and limbs?
DES
,Acetaminophen
Correct! Thalidomide
Ethanol
Cocaine
Correct! Thalidomide
Which of Hill’s causal considerations is best represented by a baby being born with a
cleft palate from a women who binged drank between her first and second months of
pregnancy?
Consistency
Experiment/Reversibility
Biological gradient/dose response
Correct! Biological plausibility
None of these
Correct! Biological plausibility
Exposure to harmful substances at what stage of pregnancy is most likely to cause
major morphological abnormalities? You can choose more than one.
When the fertilized egg is first dividing
Correct! When the embryo is 3 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 5 weeks old
When the embryo is 12 weeks old
When the embryo is 21 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 3 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 5 weeks old
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic estrogen that was used to prevent miscarriage
and other pre-term births until 1971 in the United States. Which groups of people
experienced increased risk of harm to their reproductive tissues as a result of DES?
You can choose more than one.
,Correct! The women who took DES when pregnant
The men who impregnated women who took DES
Correct! The daughters of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The sons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The grandsons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The daughters of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The sons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The grandsons of the women who took DES when pregnant
The medical community has to make sensible and ethical decisions about what and
how much medicine we give to children. How are those decisions sensibly and ethically
influenced by the example of medicines having half lives in children that differ across
childrens' ages and differ compared to adults?
We need to promptly measure drug metabolites in children so we can adjust the drug
dose to children
Correct! We need to have clinical trials in children so we can adjust the drug dose
specific to children
We need to give children half the dose we give adults
We need to avoid giving children medicine
We need to avoid giving babies medicine
Correct! We need to have clinical trials in children so we can adjust the drug dose
specific to children
Which of the following contains a toxic alkaloid? You can choose more than one.
Cannabis
Correct! Tobacco
Correct! Green potatoes
Oleander
, Milkweed
Correct! Tobacco
Correct! Green potatoes
What could happen to you if you ate green, not yet ripe, potatoes? You can choose
more than one.
Your gut cells could hemorrhage
Correct! Your gut cells could be irritated
Correct! You could pee/urinate on yourself
Correct! You could have convulsions
Correct! You could slip into a coma
Correct! Your gut cells could be irritated
Correct! You could pee/urinate on yourself
Correct! You could have convulsions
Correct! You could slip into a coma
What toxic effect of nicotine in tobacco best explains its insecticidal properties?
Arousal
Faster heart rate
Slower heart rate
Correct! Respiratory Paralysis
Addiction
Correct! Respiratory Paralysis
If chocolate makes you feel really good, it is probably because it
Correct! Activates the dopamine system
Blocks opioid receptors
Blocks endorphin activity
What are some extrinsic vulnerabilities of exposure that children experience more
relative to adults? You can choose more than one.
Correct! Children crawl on the ground
Correct! Children put items in their mouth
Children breathe more for their size
Children have more permeable skin
Children have more of a permeable blood-brain barrier
- Children crawl on the ground
- Children put items in their mouth
What are some intrinsic susceptibilities to toxicity that children experience relative to
adults? You can choose more than one.
Correct! Children breathe more for their size
Correct! Children eat more for their size
Correct! Children have more a permeable blood-brain barrier
Correct! Children have more permeable skin
Children excess nasal filtration
- Children breathe more for their size
- Children eat more for their size
- Children have more a permeable blood-brain barrier
- Children have more permeable skin
What drug used to prevent morning sickness resulted in children born with missing
thumbs and limbs?
DES
,Acetaminophen
Correct! Thalidomide
Ethanol
Cocaine
Correct! Thalidomide
Which of Hill’s causal considerations is best represented by a baby being born with a
cleft palate from a women who binged drank between her first and second months of
pregnancy?
Consistency
Experiment/Reversibility
Biological gradient/dose response
Correct! Biological plausibility
None of these
Correct! Biological plausibility
Exposure to harmful substances at what stage of pregnancy is most likely to cause
major morphological abnormalities? You can choose more than one.
When the fertilized egg is first dividing
Correct! When the embryo is 3 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 5 weeks old
When the embryo is 12 weeks old
When the embryo is 21 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 3 weeks old
Correct! When the embryo is 5 weeks old
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic estrogen that was used to prevent miscarriage
and other pre-term births until 1971 in the United States. Which groups of people
experienced increased risk of harm to their reproductive tissues as a result of DES?
You can choose more than one.
,Correct! The women who took DES when pregnant
The men who impregnated women who took DES
Correct! The daughters of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The sons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The grandsons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The daughters of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The sons of the women who took DES when pregnant
Correct! The grandsons of the women who took DES when pregnant
The medical community has to make sensible and ethical decisions about what and
how much medicine we give to children. How are those decisions sensibly and ethically
influenced by the example of medicines having half lives in children that differ across
childrens' ages and differ compared to adults?
We need to promptly measure drug metabolites in children so we can adjust the drug
dose to children
Correct! We need to have clinical trials in children so we can adjust the drug dose
specific to children
We need to give children half the dose we give adults
We need to avoid giving children medicine
We need to avoid giving babies medicine
Correct! We need to have clinical trials in children so we can adjust the drug dose
specific to children
Which of the following contains a toxic alkaloid? You can choose more than one.
Cannabis
Correct! Tobacco
Correct! Green potatoes
Oleander
, Milkweed
Correct! Tobacco
Correct! Green potatoes
What could happen to you if you ate green, not yet ripe, potatoes? You can choose
more than one.
Your gut cells could hemorrhage
Correct! Your gut cells could be irritated
Correct! You could pee/urinate on yourself
Correct! You could have convulsions
Correct! You could slip into a coma
Correct! Your gut cells could be irritated
Correct! You could pee/urinate on yourself
Correct! You could have convulsions
Correct! You could slip into a coma
What toxic effect of nicotine in tobacco best explains its insecticidal properties?
Arousal
Faster heart rate
Slower heart rate
Correct! Respiratory Paralysis
Addiction
Correct! Respiratory Paralysis
If chocolate makes you feel really good, it is probably because it
Correct! Activates the dopamine system
Blocks opioid receptors
Blocks endorphin activity
