Termite Answers

1. What is biomimicry?
Biomicry is like coppying nature. Like how we learned how to make a plane from looking at a bird.



2. Why are termites a great subject for biomimicry research?
Sciencetist's are trying to find a way how to biomimic termite's because termite's can break stuff down really well and turn it into something usefull.







3. What is an enzyme? What is a catalyst?
-Enzyme is what termites use to break down the food or whatever they are eating.
And catalyst is something that speeds things up.

4. What is cellulosic material?
- Catalyst is something that we don't use in a plant, like how we eat the strawberry but not the green leaf on top of it.

5. Why would cellulosic ethanol be more sustainable and efficient than biofuels using corn or sugar cane?

- Biofuels are normally in the form of chemicals, or alchol, whitch is not a good thing but Cellulosic Ethonal is made from normal ressorces.