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Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.
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Solution
Several plants, fruits and seeds having hallucinogenic properties.
$\Rightarrow$ They have been used for hundreds of years in folk-medicine, religious ceremonies and rituals all over the globe.
When these are taken for a purpose other than medicinal use or in amounts/frequency that impairs one's physical, physiological or psychological functions, it constitutes drug abuse.
E.g Morphine is secondary metabolite obtained from papaver somniferum. acetylation of it produces Heroin.
Standard 12
Biology
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Match List $I$ with List $II$ :
List $I$ | List $II$ |
$A.$ Cocaine | $I.$ Effective sedative in surgery |
$B.$ Heroin | $II.$ Cannabis sativa |
$C.$ Morphine | $III.$ Erythroxylum |
$D.$ Marijuana | $IV.$ Papaver somniferum |
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