2006-12-26 06:46:01 · 8 answers · asked by me801735 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
While not overly accurate one of the best ways to remember it is, If you "bite" it and it makes you sick it's poison, If it bites you and makes you sick it's venom.
2006-12-29 05:13:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poison usually refers to biological either man made or from plants although sometime in animal like the poison tree from. Venom is from creatures i.e. snakes, spiders. Venom is produces in glands in the creatures, while poisons in animals like the poison tree frog are excreted. Hope this helps.
2006-12-26 06:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by Sissy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poison can be a lot of different things. Rat poison, cyanide, arsenic, etc. They can be found in plants as well as chemically formulated. Venom however is the defense mechanism for certain animals like snakes, spiders, scorpions, stingrays, etc.
2006-12-26 06:53:27 · answer #3 · answered by baby_doll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poison is a broad category under which venom falls. Strychnine is a poison, but not venom.
2006-12-26 06:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poison usually refers to something that is produced by a plant or by some chemical process. Such as poison ivy or VX gas.
Venom is usually something that an animal produces that is meant to be injected like rattlesnake venom.
Poison can also be used as a catch-all term to descibe anything that may be introduced into someone's body can hurt or kill them, like people referring to bleach as being poison.
2006-12-26 06:51:21 · answer #5 · answered by wax 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
venom is poison
2006-12-26 06:49:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
ur iicon looks leik a retard
2006-12-26 06:49:42 · answer #7 · answered by sexy back 1 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
...right, like, every blue is a color, but not every color is blue...
2006-12-29 04:13:17 · answer #8 · answered by Zeera 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋