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The is a pouch in the digestive tracks of some vertebrates which contains bacteria that can break down cellulose?
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Which organisms can digest cellulose and how they are able to do this?
Micro-organisms, such as bacteria, are able to digest cellulose. No mammals are able to digest cellulose. This is because cellulose contains a β(1,4) linkage that no mammalian enzyme can break. This is why herbivores must have symbiotic bacteria somewhere in their digestive system that help them break down cellulose.
What contains important bacteria which synthesize vitamins and use cellulose?
vagina
What organ of the digestive system contains bacteria?
What you are probably looking for is "Colon". It is loaded with symbiotic bacteria that produce vitamins and assist with digestion.
How do cows digest cellulose?
Because cattle are ruminants and cellulose is broken down by the microbes found inside of the rumen and then digested further in the cecum. Humans do not have a multiple-chambered stomach nor a functional cecum, thus making digesting cellulose impossible. Cellulose only acts as a gut filler for humans, which is the main reason why plant matter passes through so quickly (in around 2 hours) in a human's digestive tract compared to meat, and compared to the time it takes plant matter to go through a cow's digestive tract.
Do cows digest cellulose by using parasitic cellulose digesting bacteria?
Symbiotic, not parasitic. The cow has a 4 chamber stomach, one chamber called the rumen contains these bacteria. When the cow is chewing cud, she brings up partially digested grass, re-chews it, and swallows it again into a different chamber of the stomach.Without these symbiotic bacteria the cow could no live on grass, as the mammalian digestive system is unable to digest cellulose into glucose. The bacteria do this for the cow, while the cow gives them a safe place to live with plenty of food (much more than they need for their own use).
What are the difficulties of cellulose?
it contains beta (1->4) bond, to cleave which, humans dont have proper enzymes. Thus, humans cannot cleave cellulose. Which is actually good, because it cleans your digestive tract.
Cellulose contains in which POLYMER?
Cellulose IS a polymer.
Which phyla contains vertebrates and invertebrates?
The chordata contains both vertebrates and invertebrates.
The Cecum contains microorganisms which digest cellulose.Why would the presence of these microorganisms be important in the process of digestion?
Herbivorous mammals don't secrete the enzymes required to digest cellulose. They sub-contract the work of cellulose digestion to guest bacteria. The bacteria are provided with a home and lots of food in exchange. Humans don't do this. We have no capacity to digest cellulose. The appendix is the remnant of the Caecum in the human.
What absorbs water and houses bacteria?
Colon
What household item contains good bacteria?
Yoghurt contains active bacteria cultures which are of no harm to humans these are normally from the yoghurt making process. However pro biotic yoghurts have a wider range of bacterial cultures which may aid the digestive system.
What phylum contains vertebrates?
Chordata
