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Tobacco is obtained from ___________(a) Opium poppy(b) Nicotiana tabacum(c) Erythroxylum coca(d) Atropa belladonnaThis question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.My enquiry is from Human Health and Disease topic in chapter Human Health and Disease of Biology – Class 12

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Correct CHOICE is (b) Nicotiana tabacum

To elaborate: Tobacco is dried and cured leaves of young BRANCHES of Nicotiana tabacum. The leaves are LARGE, BROAD, ovate to lanceolate in OUTLINE. They are picked up, dried and cured to yield tobacco.



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