BIOL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Aromatic Amino Acids, Alkaloid, Morphine
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Review: plants are autotrophs means that they have a broader range of anabolic pathways than animals do. Collection of biochemical reactions that are essential for cellular survival, often shared across kingdoms. The roles of the metabolites that are produced are usually quite obvious. Structural diversity of metabolites, many of which fall into same categories shown below. Metabolites produced are even more structurally diverse. Beneficial but not crucial for survival function in original plant are specific , but not always obvious formed on pathways branching at various points from primary metabolism. Vitamins essential plant products (secondary metabolite made by plants) Plants/bacteria synthesize them from common precursors (most) animals lack genes/enzymes for pathways or cannot synthesize them in large enough quantities to serve their needs. Secondary metabolism general principles: simple initial reactants come from 2 sources. The environment (h 2 o, o 2 , co 2 ) basic building blocks of secondary metabolites.
