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Why don't humans eat a lot of paper?
Paper is made of cellulose and humans cannot digest cellulose. Cellulose is another name for wood fiber.
Does wood have any nutritional value?
No, wood does not have any nutritional value for humans. It is primarily composed of cellulose, which is indigestible by the human body.
Is cellulose wood organic?
Cellulose is organic.
What is the relationship between termites and the cellulose?
Termites eat cellulose. Wood is made of cellulose so termites eat wood.
Humans cannot digest carbohydrate?
Complex answer: Cellulose is a polysaccharide that provides structural support for plants. Humans cannot digest cellulose. Thus, you cannot digest wood, which is mostly cellulose. :Simple answer Humans cannot digest the carbohydrate cellulose. Soures:AP biology class, Textbook :3
Can a human digest wood if he takes a pill that contains a cellulose digesting enzyme?
Try it son. Send us the pictures!!
How is wood formed?
cellulose +humicellulose+ligin=wood
Do you find oxygen atoms in wood?
Yes. Wood is largely composed of cellulose. Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula C6H10O5. As you may note, oxygen is a major component of cellulose.
What are the constituents of wood?
Wood is primarily composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Cellulose provides strength and rigidity to the wood fibers, while hemicellulose helps bind cellulose fibers together. Lignin acts as a natural glue that provides structural support to the wood.
What makes wood wood?
Wood is composed mostly of cellulose and lignin, in the form of fibers, and it comes from plants (trees or possibly shrubbery). Those are the defining characteristics of wood.
Why can we use potatoes as a food source but not wood?
the polysaccharides in the potato (i.e. long chain starches) can be broken down by cooking into short chain starches that can be digested by enzymes in the human gut to glucose, which provides nutritional valuethe polysaccharides in in wood (e.g. cellulose, pectin) cannot be broken down by cooking or by enzymes in the human gut, so it provides no nutritional value
What is the molecule name for wood?
cellulose
