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Name the source plants of heroin drug. How is it obtained from the plants?

Solution

Papaver somniferum is the source plant of heroin drug. This is obtained by Acetylation of morphine, which is extracted from the latex of poppy plant (Papaver somniferum).

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Name the source plants of heroin drug. How is it obtained from the plants?

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Name the most infectious human common ailment and write its causative agent.

Out of four species of malaria which is most serious ?

Name the vector of malaria.

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List three fungal genera which cause ringworm.

List two symptoms of ring worm.

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