What Are Two of the Major Classes of Antidepressant Drugs

question 11

Multiple Choice

What are two of the major classes of antidepressant drugs?

• A) benzodiazepines and lithium
• B) MAO inhibitors and tricyclics
• C) benzodiazepines and tricyclics
• D) benzodiazepines and MAOIs

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Definitions:

Polyphyletic

A term describing a group of organisms that are classified together but do not share a recent common ancestor.

Homoplastic

Exhibiting similarity in appearance due to convergent evolution rather than ancestry.

R. H. Whittaker

An American ecologist famous for proposing the five kingdom classification of organisms in 1969.

Five-kingdom Classification

A system of categorizing all living organisms into five groups: Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.