A Botanist Was Visiting a Tropical Region for the Purpose

question 57

Multiple Choice

A botanist was visiting a tropical region for the purpose of discovering plants with medicinal properties. All of the following might be ways of identifying potentially useful plants except

• A) observing which plants sick animals seek out.
• B) observing which plants are the most used food plants.
• C) observing which plants animals do not eat.
• D) collecting plants and subjecting them to chemical analysis.
• E) asking local people which plants they use as medicine.

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