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What is the type of carbohydrates that can be digested by ruminants but not by humans?
Cellulose
What type of carbohydrate can only be digested by ruminants and not humans by?
cellulose which is present in grass can be digested by ruminants but cannot be digested by humans
Why are the bacteria present in the caecum of ruminants?
Ruminants have green plants as their food. These plants contain a type of complex carbohydrate, called cellulose. In the cecum, a kind of symbiotic bacteria helps digest cellulose. In ruminants, a major part of all carbohydrates, including the complex carbohydrates such as cellulose and hemi-cellulose, is digested by bacterial action.
Which can not be digested Sucrose maltose cellulose or fructose?
cellulose
What is the thing that ruminants can digest and humans cannot?
It is Cellulose
Ruminants need special enzymes to digest?
cellulose.
Where is cellulose digested in humans?
Humans can't digest cellulose.
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.
Cud is the name given to the food of ruminants which is?
swallowed and partially digested
What polysaccharide is found in plant cells and cannot be digested by humans?
Mostly it is the cellulose. It cannot be digested
Plants contain a substance known as what which cannot be digested by cow?
The answer to that would most likely be cellulose or lignin. Cows can break this substance down, but not completely, and as such cannot be entirely digested in their stomachs.
Can glycogen be digest?
Glycogen can be digested by humans. Chitin and Cellulose, also knows as fiber, can not be digested by humans.
