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program. This unorthodox academic path also earned Co another distinction in the annals of UP: Co submitted his book on the medicinal plants of the
Cordilleras in lieu of a thesis, making him the only student to graduate from the BS Botany degree without submitting a thesis.
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Co curated a checklist called
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Co's education in Botany did not follow the usual track. He did not finish his bachelor's degree until 2008 because he was always too busy doing research out in the field. Dr Perry Ong, director of the
Institute of Biology at the
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Biology and scattered under one of UP's trees, to symbolize that Co would always be a part of the university. The last third of his ashes was given to his family.
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when they were killed in an incident involving nine members of the
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890:Valmero, Anna (2011-05-02).
619:"A Glimpse of Paradise Lost"
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365:Philippine National Police
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