02.    What does “pharmacokinetics” include?
a)    Complications of drug therapy
b)    Drug biotransformation in the organism
c)    Influence of drugs on metabolism processes
d)    Influence of drugs on genes

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Answer :

b)    Drug biotransformation in the organism

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