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Secondary Metabolites

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By: Tim Wright

Editor-in-Chief, Contract Pharma

Organic compounds that are not directly involved in normal growth of an organism. A lack of a secondary metabolite does not result in death, as is the case for primary metabolites. Most pharmaceuticals, antibiotics are secondary metabolites or derivatives of secondary metabolites.

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