How the body absorbs, metabolizes, distributes, and excretes a drug is ____. 

A. pharmacokinetics
B. pharmacodynamics
C. pharmacognosy
D. pharmacotherapeutics
E. toxicology


A. pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetics includes the absorption, metabolism, distribution, and excretion of drugs from the body.

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a. 1, 2, and 3 only b. 2 and 4 only c. 3 and 4 only d. 2, 3, and 4 only

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