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Gladiators
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Times have changed, but more than half of the world's population still relies entirely on plants for
medicines, and plants supply the active ingredients of most traditional medical products. Plants
have also served as the starting point for countless drugs on the market today. Researchers
World still generally agree that natural products from plants and other organisms have been the most
uses plants
for medicines consistently successful source for ideas for new drugs, since nature is a master chemist. Drug
discovery scientists often refer to these ideas as "leads," and chemicals that have desirable
properties in lab tests are called lead compounds.
Relatively speaking, very few species of living things on Earth have actually been seen and named
by scientists. Many of these unidentified organisms aren't necessarily lurking in uninhabited
undiscovered
species still exist
places. A few years ago, for instance, scientists identified a brand-new species of millipede in a
rotting leaf pile in New York City's Central Park, an area visited by thousands of people every
day.
Many species Scientists estimate that Earth is home to at least 250,000 different species of plants, and that up to
exist, but only
a few have
30 million species of insects crawl or fly somewhere around the globe. Equal numbers of species
been tested of fungi, algae, and bacteria probably also exist. Despite these vast numbers, chemists have tested
only a few of these organisms to see whether they harbor some sort of medically useful substance.
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hen comparing and contrasting Richardson’s and Stein’s research, there are some similarities
and differences. One similarity is that they both studied plants and animals in search of a
natural form of medicine. One difference is Richardson’s research is funded by the government
as where Stein has to find private funding for his research. According to the article, by working
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