Extracellular Matrix
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1. What is the role of the extracellular matrix in animals?
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2. What is the plant cell wall and what are the two components that make it up?
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3. What are the three major roles of the plant cell wall?
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4. What type of macromolecule is integrin and what is its role in the ECM?
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5. What is a plasmodesmata and what is its function?
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6. What are the three types of specialized cell junctions and what are the functions
of each?
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