Special Road Trip - Life Lab
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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The Importance of Plants in Medicine
Astronauts could get sick with all sorts of different illnesses on Mars, but you couldn't really pack for all the possibilities. So we need organisms that can produce these molecules on demands. Plants are one of them and there's two ways to make that happen. You can imagine making it in the plant so that you can extract it and make pills out of it. Or you can have the plant be edible so you can eat the plant and get the drug directly.
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