These B-cells produce the hormone insulin that regulates the way sugar is broken down in the body.

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He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.

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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.

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Sugar molecules released from the broken-down shell are then absorbed and used as energy by the bacteria.

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