Seat No.

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Enrolment No.______

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Diploma Pharmacy First Year Remedial Examination September 2009

Subject code: 410003

Date: 19/09/2009

Subject Name: Pharmacognosy

Time: 10:30am-1:30pm
Total Marks: 80

Instructions:
1. Attempt any five questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1
(a)
(b)
(c)

Answer the following:

Define alkaloids and give their classification.
Write general chemical tests for their identification.
Write about plants of family solanaceae containing alkaloids.

05
04
07

(c)

Answer the following:

A short note on cultivation and collection of senna.
Enlist the drugs containing carbohydrates and give their importance
as Pharmaceutical aids.
Write a note on Enzymes.

(a)
(b)
(c)

Differentiate the following:

Volatile oils/ Fixed oils.
Indian colchicum/ European colchicum.
Pale catechu/ Black catechu (Give chemical tests also for both).

05
05
06

(a)
(b)
(c)

Write a note on following:

Crude dugs and their methods of classification.
Liquorice and Dioscorea.
Vasaka and Tulsi

07
05
04

(a)
(b)
(c)

Write a note on following:

Adulteration and evaluation of crude drugs.
Complete details of resins.
A note on ginger and curcuma

07
06
03

(a)
(b)
(c)

Give botanical source, family, chemical constituents, uses and

chemical test/s of the following drugs:
Cinchona
Asafoetida
Purple foxglove

06
05
05

Q.2
(a)
(b)

Q.3

Q.4

Q.5

Q. 6

Q.7
(a)
(b)
(c)

Write a note on following:

Natural fibres.
Nuxvomica and its chemical tests.
Laxatives.
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07
04

07
04
05