Answer:
There are many of compounds which can be obtained from living things. These compounds are mostly used as a drugs. Many researcher are doing work to identify compounds present in living organism which may be helpful to peoples. They screen out many thousand compounds out of which only few compounds have desirable characteristics.
Example:
- Penicillin that has such a compound that is used a anti-biotics. It was obtained from fungus.
- Taxol is another anticancer drug that was obtained from tree.
