What is a biomimicry?
A Bio means is life and mimic means imitation. Which means imitating life. For example things that are living, like plants, animals,etc.
What is an enzyme? What is a catalyst?
An enzyme is any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion. It also means Catalyst. A catalyst is somthing that speeds up a process.
What is cellulosic material?
A cellulosic material is part of a plant that we can not eat.
Why would cellulosic ethanol be more sustainable and efficient than biofuels using corn or sugar cane?
It has the advantage that the lignocellulose raw material is highly abundant and diverse.
Why are termites a great subject for biomimicry research?
Because Termits have enzymes that could make fuel from parts of plants called cellulosic materials.
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