Question

How are secondary metabolites useful to human welfare? Give two examples of i?

Answer 1

➡️Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of an organism. ✔️

➡️Unlike primary metabolites, absence of secondary metabolites does not result in immediate death, but rather in long-term impairment of the organism's survivability, fecundity, or aesthetics, or perhaps in no significant change at all. ✔️

➡️Secondary metabolites are often restricted to a narrow set of species within a phylogenetic group. ✔️

➡️Secondary metabolites often play an important role in plant defence against herbivory and other interspecies defenses.✔️

➡️Humans use secondary metabolites as medicines, flavorings, and recreational drugs.✔️

Examples - Abietic acid, Pipecolic acid

Answer 2

Answer:

• Metabolites are the intermediates and products of metabolism.
• A secondary metabolite is not directly involved in those processes but usually has an important ecological function.

Examples,

• include antibiotics and pigments .
• Some antibiotics use primary metabolites as precursors.
• such as actinomycin which is created from the primary metabolite, tryptophan.

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