What is the difference between the human digestive system and a pigs digestive system?

Answer 1

There are many differences between humans and cows. But the most notable difference is the digestive system. Cows have a digestive system that enables them to eat and digest plant matter (fibre, cellulose, hemicellulose, starches, etc.) more efficiently than humans. It is this difference that makes cows able to eat roughage and coarser forages than what humans are able to chew through. Humans, on the other hand, are more able to digest animal proteins more efficiently than cows. Essentially, cows are herbivores and humans are omnivores by natural selection and evolution.

Cows are ruminants, which means they have one large stomach with four compartments that enable coarse plant matter to be digested and broken down in four steps, starting in the reticulum, which collects hardware and other things that cannot be digested or passed through the animal, followed by the rumen, which is a fermentation vat that breaks down fibrous material with the work done by microflora. The omasum absorbs the excess "water" from the digested material, and then further digested by the abomasum, with enzymes to digest proteins and starches.

Humans are monogastrics, which only have one stomach with one compartment. Enzymes or peptides are designed to help break down proteins and starches, but not fibre or cellulose. Proteins stay in the stomach longer because they are being broken down more efficiently. Plant matter passes through more quickly because it can't be digested as efficiently. The only real benefit with fibrous matter is that it helps with healthy bowel movements.

Cattle also have a large functioning cecum that is used to further break down fibre that was missed being broken down in the rumen. Humans, on the other hand, have what is supposed to be a cecum that actually has no significance to the human's digestive system: the appendix is just a useless piece of skin attached to the large intestine that does nothing except cause pain when it gets infected.

Answer 2

A pig's large intestine is basically balled while a human's is wound around the inside of the body.

The human and pig digestive systems are very similar. Their digestive system includes all the same organs that we have. The esophagus, the stomach, the liver and gall bladder, the spleen, the pancreas, the small and large intestines, etc.

Answer 3

The human and pig digestive system are very similar.That's why they are what you dissect in Biology. Their digestive system includes all the same organs that we have. The esophagus,stomach,liver,gall bladder,spleen,pancreas,and the small and large intestines. The functions of the organs are the same as well.A pigs large intestines basically balled while a humans is wound the inside of the body. THIS IS ANSWERED BY ENILY JOHNSON A 11 YEAR OLD THAT QUESTION WAS EASY HOW DID U NOT KNOW THAT.

Answer 4

Humans have a vermiform appendix, a framing large intestine and a spleen that resembles the other organs. Pigs do not have an appendix, and their large intestine is coiled. Finally, the spleen of the pig looks like a flat peice of skin.

Answer 5

There are a number of differences, mostly due to the different diets between pigs and cattle. Cattle are fore-gut fermenters that eat a primarily grass-based diet; their stomach has developed into four separate chambers and they have a well-developed cecum as well as a relatively long large intestine. Pigs do not have internal fermentation as they eat an omnivorous diet of both plants and insects; their digestive tract is very similar to humans'.

Answer 6

Yes. In some cases the differences are larger than in others. For example, cows are ruminants and have a stomach with four separate compartments, while the digestive system of a chimp is fairly close to that of a human.

Answer 7

well they're animals,we're humans sometimes it same sometimes not like cows.