GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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BIOLOGY

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From which part of Opium plant we get morphine?
A
Leaves
B
Stem
C
Bank
D
Fruit coat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -opium poppy, (Papaver somniferum), flowering plant of the family Papaveraceae, native to Turkey. Opium, morphine, codeine, and heroin are all derived from the milky latex found in its unripe seed capsule.

Detailed explanation-2: -Opium is found in the latex (a milky fluid) of unripe pods of poppy plants 1–3 weeks after flowering. The milky fluid is collected by incision of green seed pods.

Detailed explanation-3: -Morphine is one of the many, and pharmacologically most important, opium poppy alkaloid (Papaver somniferum). A poppy plant consists of a lot of alkaloids. Most of them are morphine, codeine, narcotine, papaverine, thebaine, narceine and narcotoline.

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