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The component of plant cell walls is known as

  1. cellulose

  2. dextrans

  3. inulin

  4. glycogen
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Explanation

Cellulose is the water insoluble roughage part of the group. It is an important component of plant cell walls and the most frequent poly-saccharide at all. Cellulose is not only a roughage but also a food additives .Like those of amylose, molecules of cellulose are unbranched homopolymers of about ten to fifteen thousand D-glucose monomers which are, however, linked not by a, 1-4 but by P, 1-4 glycosidic bonds.

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