Water is needed to break the hydrogen bonds in the starch aggregates, allowing ready access to stored energy.
Termites depend on digestive tract to digest the complex sugars into simpler molecules that they can use for food. Cellulose is a major sugar and it is broken down in the hindgut of the termite by microbes into molecules called short-chain fatty acids. The termite's cells use these acids as nourishment, just like our cells do.
therefore, answer is A. mutualism
Answer:
as a dimer consisting of two identical monomers (80 kDa subunits) that are packed together via hydrophobic interactions
Explanation:
SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulphate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis), is an electrophoretic methodology used to separate proteins that have a molecular weight between 5 to 250 kDa. SDS is a well-known ionic detergent that is able to break hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonds. Moreover, size-exclusion chromatography is a filtration technique that separates molecules in solution according to their molecular size. In this case, SDS-PAGE showed that the target protein is composed of two identical subunits (monomers) of 80 kDa each, which were separated by the detergent and formed one single band in the SDS-PAGE gel.
