Biology 1st Edition by Jerome Krueger, Kendra Hill, Robert Noyd

Exercise 6

The percent moisture data show that after 12 weeks the wood gained water. The wood is a source of nutrition and energy for the fungus. Thinking of the metabolic process that the jelly fungi use to convert the wood into energy, where did the water come from? In this same metabolic process, where do the carbon atoms in the cellulose go?