It is more indicated to use the term chitin, although with k it is also valid. It is a word of Greek origin meaning tunic. Name of a carbohydrate that is part of the composition of the walls of fungi. It also forms the exoskeleton of some insects (arthropods) and some organs of other classes of simple animals.
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