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The Pacific yew is an evergreen tree that grows in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific yew has a fleshy, poisonous fruit. Recently, taxol, a substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew, was discovered to be a promising new anticancer drug.
a)Taxol is poisonous when taken by healthy people.
b)Taxol has cured people from various diseases.
c)People should not eat the fruit of the Pacific yew.
d)The Pacific yew was considered worthless until taxol was discovered.

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abhishek   (12 years ago)

Given the information presented, the only statement that could be considered true is that the fruit should not be eaten because it is poisonous. There is no support that taxol is poisonous or that taxol has cured anyone (choices a and b). There is no support for choice d.

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Aman Agarwal  (10 years ago)

The correct answer as per me would be option C. this is because that it is mentioned in second line that "The Pacific yew has a fleshy, poisonous fruit."

Hence people should not eat a poisonous fruit.....

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Susmita Das  (8 years ago)

Option D
It is said that Pacific yew has a fleshy poisonous fruit.Hence it cannot be consumed. But recently,its bark showed some evidences that a substance called taxol could be a new anticancer drug.

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mohammed awais  (12 years ago)

option d
option c is aso fine but it's not bcos ststement should be somewhat effective

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harsh kumar arya  (8 years ago)

may be c and d in my opinion

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navya sri  (8 years ago)

c is the correct answer for this

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MANSI SRIVASTAVA  (8 years ago)

option a) is correct.
since taxol is found in d bark of pacific yew & dis plant has a poisonous fruit i.e taxol.

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phanirenuka  (4 years ago)

a)Taxol is poisonous when taken by healthy people,because util we find that it is a anticancer durg
b)Taxol has cured people from various diseases.

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Pranav  (4 years ago)

c bcoz in question they have menstioned

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Unknown  (4 years ago)

Given the information presented, the only statement that could be considered true is that the fruit should not be eaten because it is poisonous. There is no support that taxol is poisonous or that taxol has cured anyone (choices a and b). There is no support for choice d.


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