Name a waste product of plants which is used as a medicine.

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Waste products in plants:
Plants too produce waste products during their life process.
There are two kinds of waste products produced by plants, oxygen during photosynthesis in day time and carbon dioxide during respiration at night.
Other kind of waste product produced by plants is Morphine.
Morphine
Morphine is a nitrogenous waste product derived from plants .
It is an alkaloid.
Morphine is used as a medicine in reliving pain.

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