Which consequence inhibits cellulose digestion when termites lack microbiota?

💡 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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