Question

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

Answer 1

Excretion:-

1. The removal of metabolic waste products from the body is called excretion.

Excretion in plants:-

1. The plants produce other types of waste products like alkaloids, tannins, and aromatic oils.
2. The alkaloids quinine, morphine and atropine are the waste product of plants that are used in medicine.