1) What is a secondary metabolite? What are two roles they commonly play in plants?  Give three economic uses for secondary metabolites

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1) What is a secondary metabolite? What are two roles they commonly play in plants? 

Give three economic uses for secondary metabolites.

What are the two components that make up all glycosides?

2. Give five reasons to rationalize studying plants for their potential medicinal usage?

Prior to starting your study in a remote area with a known aboriginal population, should they be contacted and why?

3. Give three characteristics of an Indigenous population and explain why these would increase the likelihood of a successful search for medicinal plants

4. You have been hired to find potential new medicines from plants. Following an initial successful screening and bioassay, what steps would you take to further examine the potential for the medicine? What problem(s) could occur from collecting the plant. What is the overall major factor limiting medicinal development from plants?