Artemisinin, a drug used to treat multi-drug resistant malaria, is extracted from:
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Correct answer: Sweet Wormwood
Artemisinin is derived from the Sweet Wormwood plant (Artemisia annua). Its discovery for the treatment of malaria was so significant that it led to a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
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