Medical Interventions 3.4 Review

Scientifically controlled study of the safety and effectiveness of medications is called a

• Clinical Trial

• Double Blind Study

• Controlled Study

• Research Application

Clinical Trial in which both the researchers and the patients know who gets the drug/placebo

• Double Blind Study

• Open Study

• Single Blind Study

• Controlled Study

The "Gold Standard" for testing the effectiveness of new medication

• Non-refutable Trail

• Clinical Trial

• Double Blind Study

• Controlled Invetigation

In clinical trials one group is given the medication and the other group is given a sugar pill

• The sugar pill is the placebo

• The medication is the placebo

• Placebos are typically not used in clinical trials

• Both the medication and the sugar pill are placebos

An ELISA test works by

• Bonding and measuring antibodies produced by the body

• Bonding and measuring the antigens present in the body

• Bonding and measuring the number of leukocytes present

• Bonding antigens made from the body to antibodies and then measuring

Someone who studies the relationship between heredity and drug effectiveness is a

• A mad scientist

• Forensic Geneticist

• Genoepidemologist

• Pharmacogeneticist

The field of nanomedicine focuses primarily on

• Health care of short people

• Dealing with disease vectors smaller than a micrometer

• Use nanobots as medical interventions

• Using optics to do microsurgeries

Drugs do not, for all people, react in the same way often as a result of different SNPs which results

• levels of activity

• environmental factors

• diets or weights

• genetic profiles

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

An "SNP" is short for "single nuclotide _____"

• Polymorph

• Production

• Pattern

• Perseveration

Certain blood pressure medications are less effective in African populations likely because

• Cultural differences in eating and exercise habits

• Hypertension has different symptoms in this population

• slight variations in their inheritable traits

• This ethnic group is immune to the disease

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2