Multiple choice

Directions: Fill in the blank.

Because opium and morphine are _____ the poppy plant, people who have eaten poppy seed bagels or cakes occasionally receive false positives in drug tests.

  1. hybrids of

  2. derived from

  3. prescriptive to

  4. corollaries of

  5. antithetical to
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Opium and morphine are chemical substances extracted from the poppy plant. 'Derived from' is the correct phrase to describe this origin.

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