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bioprospecting

 noun
     
bi‧o‧pro‧spec‧ting also biodiversity prospecting [uncountable]
the scientific study of plants and other living things found in nature, such as bacteria, in order to discover new drugs that can used as medicines
—bioprospect verb [intransitive]
—bioprospector noun [countable]
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