cellulose
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An Essential Building Material
a: Cellulose ~
b: cinder block of the plant world
What: "Cellulose is like the cinder block of the plant world. In tree leaves, cellulose gives the plant cell walls their structure. Under a microscope, you can also see how cellulose forms tiny needle-like crystals. "
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Writer: Quark Twain
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Date: May 2 2013 10:33 AM
# 2860 Critique Analogy
In Another Context....
a: Cellulose ~
b: a sponge
What: "Cellulose is like a sponge. If you drop a sponge in water, it saturates instantaneously. A wet sponge readily loses water when it is placed on a dry substrate. In order for an isolated plant cell, like a unicellular alga, to survive, it must be in constant contact with water."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 2 2013 10:36 AM
# 2861 Critique Analogy
Like A Coal Train???
a: Cellulose ~
b: a really, really long train
What: "Cellulose is like a really, really long train. A train with up to 9,000 cars (glucose units) attached. That's why it's so dang tough."
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Writer: palmerjay
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Date: May 2 2013 10:39 AM
# 2862 Critique Analogy
Similar Subunits Yet Differnt Bonding....
a: Cellulose ~
b: starch, except that
What: "Cellulose is like starch in that it is made from condensed glucose units, but a different type of linkage between these units allows the chains to lie in flat planes, and vertebrates have no enzymes to digest these linkages."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: May 2 2013 10:42 AM
# 2863 Critique Analogy
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