This contrasts with the cell walls of fungi (which are made of chitin), and of bacteria, which are made of peptidoglycan. Cell walls perform many essential functions: they provide shape to form the tissue and organs of the plant, and play an important role in intercellular communication and plant-microbe interactions.
Chris and Taya Kyle met in 2001 and married just before he deployed for the first time at the start of the Iraq war, according to the book. Chris Kyle would deploy three more times to Iraq before retiring in 2009.
Elliott married actress Katharine Ross in 1984. Although Ross starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which Elliott had a very small role, the two did not meet and begin dating until 1978 when they both starred in The Legacy.