• Question: What is the cellulose?

    Asked by Joan Saba to Cedric, Ines on 10 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by adpdp2004.
    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      Cellulose is a material use by plant cells to build a wall around the cells. The wall is needed to keep the cell firm so that plants can stand upright to get sun!

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 13 Mar 2017:

      Cellulose is a compound that gives structure to the cell walls of vegetal cells. Generally, one thinks of cellulose as the compound that gives vegetal material a fibrous quality, the more cellulose the most fibrous a material feels, like bark, or cotton.

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