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serves as the reserve supply of carbohydrate in the body. 

 Inorganic compounds serve in very many functions in the 

 animal, whereas in the plant they are only transitory forms 

 of food material. The animal contains no cellulose, crude 

 fiber, or volatile oils, as do plants. 



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Brubaker. Text Book of Physiology. 

 Hawk. Practical Physiological Chemistry. 

 Smith. Manual of Veterinary Physiology. 

 Starling. Human Physiology. 



