BIOL 2080 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stamen, Salicin, Codeine
18 Apr 2016
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Lecture 12 nutrition chapter 10 / box pg 14. Box 1. 2 perfumes to poisons : plants as chemical factories. Carbs, lipids, proteins, nuclei acids are essential to life > primary metabolites. Many plants and fungi produce other chemical product that are produced along secondary pathways > secondary compounds ( secondary metabolites ) Essential oils provide flavour aroma of many herbs and spices, perfume incense. Resins are used in production of pharmaceuticals, dental adhesives, varnishes, insecticides, chewing gum turpentine, rosin, perfume, oil based paints. Polyterpenes elastic compounds found in latex, milky sap produce by plants , rubber from rubber tree. Carotenoid pigments : red. , orange, yellow - usually classified as primary meta. Taxol - terpene from the bark of pacific yew tree that is important in chemotherapy. Phenolics - contain one or more aromatic benzene ring w hydroxyl group. Flavonoids include water soluble plant pigments anthocyanins important in dyes.
