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How could scientists prove that it is microbes in the cow's stomach which are able to digest cellulose to glucose?
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By taking a sample of fluid from the cows stomach, making a culture of microorganisms present there, placing the culture in a medium that contains cellulose, waiting, testing for glucose at intervals under conditions that are similar to the cow's body temperature, pH, etc.
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How to absorb glucose from cellulose?
glucose can't be absorbed from cellulose,as its a polymer,so cellulose is more stable compound,,if u can get the bacteria which is found in cow's stomach gut, u can converte your cellulose to glucose.
Does the animal gain glucose from a plant it is eating?
Yes and no. Plants do make glucose but only very few plants actually store sugar (glucose) as sugar. They usually convert it to starch or cellulose. Thus a bee will get sugar from the nectar of a plant it is feeding on but a sheep eating grass has to process the cellulose in the grass to get nutrients from it. It can not do this itself so it has to get microbes and bacteria in its stomach to ferment the chewed up plants. It then digests these microbes which form its nutrient source. Thus the plant (the producer) is the source of energy in both cases.
Do Ruminant animals have a four-chambered stomach and have cellulose-producing microbes in their rumens?
Ruminant animals have 4 stomachs but the microbed don't produce cellulose, they break it down.
What does the stomach contain to defend your body against microbes?
The stomach contains acids that defend your body against microbes. Most of these microbes are destroyed once they are digested and enter into the acidic stomach.
What does the stomach do to defend against microbes?
The stomach contains hydrochloric acid, which is a very strong acid that is capable of killing microbes.
What is symbiotic microbes?
The symbiotic microbes help nourish a ruminant live mainly in specialized regions of the stomach
Why is it important to keep pure strain microbes?
stomach
Why are ruminant able to digest cellulose?
Actually ruminants cannot digest cellulose, they have symbiotic bacteria in a part of their stomach called a "rumen" digest the cellulose down to sugars and starches that the ruminants can actually digest in another part of their stomach later.
What two reasons that the acid in your stomach is beneficial?
It aids in digestionIt protect us from some microbes that are pathogens. Some disease causing microbes are present in contaminated or food that are not properly treated. The acid pH of the stomach kills those microbes and protect us from disease.
What diseases do the microbes of clostridium botulinum cause?
it causes stomach problems
How can immunisation stop people catching diseases?
your stomach acids fight it off and they kill the microbes. in a way this is good and bad because if it kills the bad microbes then it kills the good microbes in our body aswell!
Does acid in the stomach kill germs?
Stomach acid kills some germs, or microbes, but there are some, like Helicobacter pyloris, that do just fine in stomach acid.
