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In this video, we look at the cell walls found in plant cells, algae and in fungi. First we explore the cellulose cell wall in plant cells. We look at the properties of the cellulose cell wall and then link these to the structure of cellulose. We then look at the cell walls in algae and fungi.

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Wilting plant

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Shenglian Lu, Chunjiang Zhao, Xinyu Guo, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cellulose structure (image resized, cropped and rearranged by S. Donnelly)

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Eunice Laurent, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Middle Lamella (image resized, cropped and rearranged by S. Donnelly)

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Seaweed

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Seaweed by Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fungi

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