FPGEE Reviews Questions

Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination Questions and Answers

Question 33

Vitamin that requires an intrinsic factor to be carried out to ileum in order to suffer absorption from the small intestine:

Cyanocobalamin

Folic acid

Pantothenic acid

Pyridoxine

Niacin

Question 34

Correct statements concerning vitamin E include:

I- It is a lipid soluble vitamin stored in adipose tissues

II- It is absorbed from the small intestine

III- Widely used in pharmaceutical formulations as antioxidant agent

I only

III only

I and II only

II and III only

All are correct

Question 35

Which vitamin can be classified as hormone?

Vitamin D

Vitamin D3

Vitamin E

Vitamin K

Vitamin B12

Question 36

Protein synthesis inhibitors may bind to:

30s ribosomal subunit only

50s ribosomal subunit only

70s ribosomal subunit only

30s and 50s and 70s ribosomal subunits

30s and 70s ribosomal subunits