its called E.coli..they live inside the guts of the animals and help them to digest food.
Yes they do. In fact, without bacteria in our guts to digest food, we would soon die.
A very common species of bacteria (that lives in most peoples guts) is E. coli (Escherichia coli).
It lives almost everywhere- even inside your body. In your body, it's mostly inside your guts to help you digest your food. Also, lots live in the ground, some called the saprophytic aerobic bacteria that reuses nutrients from dead plants to plants that need the nutrients in order to grow. There are also nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that helps the environment. Some bacteria can be in food, and can cause food poisining. Lots of bacteria are used for dairy products, such as cheese, yogurt, etc they only can be seen though microscope
Through the mouth, by putting contaminated fingers, objects or food into it. E. coli generally lives in guts, including of humans.
Horses digest the bulk of their natural feed (grasses) in the hind guts by fermentation of cellulose into volatile fatty acids. Bacteria in the hind gut is a primary "player" in the digestive process.
When prepared as food, the small intestines from hog guts are called chitlings.
The bacteria live off of cellulose and support the life of the termite.
The bacteria live off of cellulose and support the life of the termite.
grimy greasy gopher guts
Termites chew up solid wood and organisms in their guts digest this releasing the nutrients in the wood to the termites.
Termites chew up solid wood and organisms in their guts digest this releasing the nutrients in the wood to the termites.
NoHumans are unable to digest cellulose because the appropriate enzymes to breakdown the beta acetal linkages are lacking. (More on enzyme digestion in a later chapter.) indigestible cellulose is the fiber which aids in the smooth working of the intestinal tract.Animals such as cows, horses, sheep, goats, and termites have symbiotic bacteria in the intestinal tract. These symbiotic bacteria possess the necessary enzymes to digest cellulose in the GI tract. They have the required enzymes for the breakdown or hydrolysis of the cellulose; the animals do not, not even termites, have the correct enzymes. No vertebrate can digest cellulose directly.One of the comments indicated the reader is confused as to whether termites have the necessary enzymes to digest cellulose. The answer indicates, correctly, that they do not have the enzymes (innately). Instead, they have a symbiotic relationship with a bacteria that provides the needed enzymes. In other words, they have them, but only because a friendly organism supplies them with them.Reference: http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/547cellulose.htmlfalse