How is Pharmacognosy related to Botany?
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Pharmacognosy is closely related to Botany as it involves the study of natural products obtained from plants, microbes, and other natural sources for their medicinal and biological properties. Pharmacognosy relies heavily on botanical knowledge to identify, collect, characterize, and study plants and their constituents that possess therapeutic potential.
Botanical understanding helps pharmacognosists identify which plants to study for potential medicinal compounds, where they grow, how to cultivate them, and how to extract and analyze their bioactive compounds.
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