ABSTRACT
The bioactive compounds isolated from marine organisms include the following: seaweed, cyanobacteria, sea slugs, soft corals, cnidarians, sea hares, sponges, tunicates, bryozoans, nudibranchs, mollusks, marine fungus, and other marine organisms. Marine bioactive compounds play a key role in human life, mostly for the scope of biotechnology and pharmacology. Owing to their vast diversity and their potential bioactivity, scientists face challenges to come up with novel techniques to isolate bioactive compounds for a more robust future. Indeed, the fact that the marine environment has the largest biodiversity, compared to other terrestrial environments, using marine-derived products as a source of therapeutic agents is still in its infancy. The limitation of marine- derived products is the hassle of collecting marine organisms. Marine biotechnology deals with marine species, which have been used to make or synthesize or discover new bioactive compounds for different specific uses in both the aquatic and terrestrial environment.
