What is the role of symbiosis in cellulose digestion?
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Termites also known as wood ants eat wood to meet their nutritional demand. Wood contain
So as there is solution to every query just like that there is also a solution to termite's problem: Termites have special guests i.e certain endosymbiont microbes or bacteria & protozoans. These tiny unicellular organisms reside in hind gut of termite and secrete an enzyme called
In return, termite provide its gut symbionts with protection and food i.e cellulose . These protozoans would die outside the termite and termite also can't survive without them. As both the partners are benefited so this is an example of symbiosis or symbiotic relationship.
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