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Q. More than $25\%$ of drugs are derived from plants. What kind of benefit does this describe?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Solution:

Humans derive countless direct economic benefits from nature that come under narrow utilitarian category. These benefits include food, fibre, construction material, etc. More than $25$ percent of the drugs currently sold in the market world wide are derived from plants and $25,000$ species of plants contribute to the traditional medicines used by native people around the world.