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Table 3 Screening of ethyl acetate extracts of four selected marine sponges for biochemical constituents
Sponges
Steroids
Triterpen-
oids
Reducing
suger
Alkaloids
Phenolic
compound
Saponin
Xantho
protein
Tannin
Flavan-
oids
Aromatic
acid
Aurora
globostellata
(TCN -8)
-
-
-
+
-
+
-
-
+
-
Spirastrella
inconstans
var.
moeandrina
Dendy (TCN -10)
+
-
+
+
-
+
-
+
+
-
Note: (+) Present; (
-
) Absent
Figure 1 The four species selected for biomedical study