BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Instant Coffee, Fruit Anatomy, Hemileia Vastatrix
14 Mar 2017
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Stimulating beverages: (from here onwards is your final exam) We get caffeine from our stimulating beverages and effects your central nervous system. Alkaloid= large secondary metabolites (are not like primary metabolites) they are basically respiration, reproduction, there are many metabolic processes. The metabolites are required to help the plant (primary) secondary is produced by plants, they can have a toxin or bitterness, it is not necessary for the plants survival, but it gives the plant an advantage. All nitrogen containing compounds = the only common thing is alkaloids. It"s a mild diuretic, so it helps you pass urine. Coffee: native to ethiopia, coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world! It is not addictive (though some may argue) but coffee can be habit forming (ex. What you call the coffee bean is actually the coffee seed. Vanilla pods are called beans; bean is just a general term. The temperature its produced at determines the roast.
