A secondary metabolite is a substance not essential for normal growth but used by cells, such as pigments or toxic chemicals produced by plants for protection.
Un metabolito secundario es una sustancia que no es esencial para el crecimiento normal, pero que las células utilizan, como los pigmentos o los químicos tóxicos que producen las plantas para protegerse.
| Front | Define secondary metabolite. + examples |
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| Back | Secondary metabnolite - substance which is not essential for normal growth but still used by cells - organism would not suffer in short term without them
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