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Examine plant chemicals to understand both their roles in plants and how they may act in the human body as drugs or toxins. Topics include the use of poisonous, psychoactive, and other medicinal plants in indigenous cultures and in modern and alternative medicine. ### requirements text (BOTANY 100,BOTANY/​BIOLOGY  130,ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY  152,BOTANY 240, orBIOCORE 383) and (CHEM 103,CHEM 108,CHEM 109, orCHEM 115) or graduate/professional standing ### credit offering ids None recorded. ### llm job id enrich-8b774950c2b6adfdc46d1b82 ### llm output id 38034b996876edda101105d5cec5b7df2f7a4bdb16c63d8d0ff4d97ebc91e0d2 ### llm model nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 ### llm model revision 1355db6a052410cfd62085d94b58866fd0f2c3c5 ### llm task version 14 ### llm search status valid ### llm summary MEDICAL BOTANY examines how plants affect human health through their chemical roles as drugs or toxins. ### llm topics * Plant chemicals as drugs or toxins * Poisonous and psychoactive plants in indigenous cultures * Medicinal plants in modern and alternative medicine ### llm skills * Examine plant chemicals as drugs or 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