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audie

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Of the roughly 250,000 species of higher plants in the world, how many may have medicinal or nutritional values?
 
  a. All of them
  b. 40,000
  c. 10,000
  d. Roughly half

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The ancient Greeks and several North American Indian tribes used the bark of willows for relief from pain and fever. Today, this cure can be found in:
 
  a. aspirin.
  b. cough syrup.
  c. ibuprofen.
  d. Tylenol.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A


audie

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Gracias!

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