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← Nature & AnimalsWhich consequence inhibits cellulose digestion when termites lack microbiota?
A)Anaerobic fermentation halts completely✓
B)The exoskeleton begins to dissolve
C)Chitin production slows rapidly
D)Methane production rates increases sharply
💡 Explanation
Anaerobic fermentation halts because cellulolytic protozoa and bacteria in the termite's gut perform the crucial symbiotic cellulose digestion process. Therefore, without microbiota, termites cannot digest cellulose, rather than produce exoskeleton/chitin issues dependent of metabolic pathways.
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