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a chemical compound or substance produced by a living organism -
found in nature that usually has a pharmacological or biological
activity for use in pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug
design. A natural product can be considered as such even if it
can be prepared by total synthesis. Not all natural products can
be fully synthesized and many natural products have very complex
structures that are too difficult and expensive to synthesize on
an industrial scale. These include drugs such as penicillin,
morphine, and formerly paclitaxel . Such compounds can only be
harvested from their natural source - a process which can be
tedious, time consuming, and expensive, as well as being
potentially unsustainabl