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Ruminants are animals that eat grass. They are specially adapted to digest the cellulose found in grass by having large stomachs filled with fermenting bacteria.
Humans are unable to get metabolic energy from cellulose because they lack the enzymes necessary to chemically break it down. Since the human body can't properly digest cellulose, it's passed in the feces.
Ants cannot digest cellulose. Termites can, but only because of symbiotic microorganisms in their digestive system. Termites are sometimes called white ants but they belong to a completely different insect order.
As it's digestive system has developed and the bacteria in the rumen have developed to digest cellulose.
Ruminants more completely break starches down being that they have three compartments in their digestive track for fermenting them. They are more able to break down cellulose due to the different bacterias in their rumun and omasum.
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.
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.
The digestive system of ruminants consists of four stomach.
No ruminants are all mammals, a termite is an insect. However both ruminants and termites use symbiotic bacteria to help them digest cellulose in their food.
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Animals such as cows, horses, sheep, goats, and termites have symbiotic bacteria in the intestinal tract that contain the enzymes that allow them to digest cellulose in the GI tract. No vertebrate (animals with an internal skeleton) can digest cellulose directly; all must use the enzyme to break down cellulose.
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.
None. Animals that can digest cellulose host special bacteria to digest the cellulose molecules, and humans do not host these.
None. Humans can't digest cellulose. Bacteria in the large intestine can digest some cellulose, creating gas and vitamin K.
In cows and other herbivores, their natural flora of bacteria break down cellulose and make it something they can digest, but in humans our bacteria have no effect on cellulose, so for us it is indigestible.