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To explain: The reason behind that humans are not able to digest cellulose.
Introduction:
Carbohydrates are organic
To determine: Whether an individual would accept if he was offered a procedure that allowed him to acquire the ability to consume cellulose.
Introduction:
Polysaccharides are formed by the long chain of simple monomeric units of monosaccharide. The some polysaccharides are glycogen, starch, cellulose and chitin. Some of these polysaccharides act as an energy reservoir (starch and glycogen) while some of the polysaccharide acts as a structural component of cell that forms the cell wall (cellulose and chitin).
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