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What special organ helps a rabbit digest cellulose?
The organ that helps a rabbit to digest is stomach.
How do grass eating animals digest cellulose?
They have appendix as a working organ, its vestigial in humans.
Why people dont eat things with very high levels of cellulose?
People cannot digest cellulose
What does the appendix has to do with inability to digest cellulose?
the appendix digest cellulose, but human appendix does not work.
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 type organisms digest cellulose in the intestinal tract of humans?
None. Humans can't digest cellulose. Bacteria in the large intestine can digest some cellulose, creating gas and vitamin K.
What part of the digestive system is cellulose digestive?
None. Animals that can digest cellulose host special bacteria to digest the cellulose molecules, and humans do not host these.
Where is cellulose digested in humans?
Humans can't digest cellulose.
Can amylase digest cellulose?
no
Can peptidase digest cellulose?
No
What Does The Rumen 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.
