<span>Some 120 prescription drugs sold worldwide today are derived directly from rainforest plants. And according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants. Examples abound. Ingredients obtained and synthesized from a now-extinct periwinkle plant found only in Madagascar (until deforestation wiped it out) have increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.</span>
Explanation:
<u>There are many ways that drug-resistant infections can be prevented: immunization, safe food preparation, handwashing, and using antibiotics as directed and only when necessary. In addition, preventing infections also prevents the spread of resistant bacteria.</u>
Answer:
11. TRUE
12. TRUE
13. FALSE
14. TRUE
15. FALSE
16. TRUE
17. TRUE
18. TRUE
19. TRUE
20. FALSE
Explanation:
Animals can actually reproduce sexually and asexually. Animals that reproduce asexually do that through fission, fragmentation, budding, etc.
Some of the animals that reproduce asexually include planarians, sea stars, annelid worms, etc.
In the fertilization process, the male sperm cell and the female egg cell come together.
Sexual reproduction involve the fertilization of egg by the sperm. In asexual, there is no fertilization. Ferns are spore-bearing plants. They reproduce via spores but their spores are not actually blackish.
Answer:
A normal type of white blood cell that has coarse granules within its cytoplasm.
