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Suppose many wild plants were to become extinct within short time. What effect might this have on medical research? Explain your answer.

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The extinction of wild plants provides medical researchers with fewer possible sources of medicine.
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it might have a bad effect because those plants could have been used for research but if they are extinct they cant be researched  
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