List of top Pharmacognosy Questions on Plant products asked in GPAT

Taxol is primarily semi-synthesized from which of the following precursors:

Alkanna tinctoria (Boraginaceae) roots are used in:-

The sweet taste and odour of fennel is due to:-

A steroidal phyto constituent lowering blood sugar is obtained from

Match the drugs with plant from which they are isolated and their families

(1)	Artemisinin	(P)	Periwinkle	(i)	Dioscoreaceae
(2)	Diosgenin	(Q)	May apple	(ii)	Apocynaceae
(3)	Etoposide	(R)	Sweet wormwood	(iii)	Berberidaceae
(4)	Vinblastine and Vicnristine	(S)	Maxican wild yam	(iv)	Asteraceae

Phenylalanine, a precursor of most of the phenolics is higher plants is a product of which one of the following pathways