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What helps digest cellulose?
cecum or caecum
Explain the importance of cellulose in the human diet?
Humans lack the necessary enzyme to digest cellulose, so it acts as roughage in the intestines and helps with the digestion process
Can a female rabbit become pregnant if you give her male saliva?
Saliva has nothing to do with pregnancy. It helps to digest food, that is all.
What are some special features of the mouth?
The mouth has teeth and saliva. which helps to digest easily.
Why are you advised to eat salad and other plant fibers which are rich in cellulose when you cannot digest cellulose?
Cellulose, while it cannot be digested by humans, still can serve a function in digestion. Consuming a lot of cellulose (fiber) helps to prevent constipation, and it also minimizes intestinal disorders and may also serve as an aid in dieting.
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.
Can carnivores digest cellulose?
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
Which part of a plant is not digestible by humans?
Cellulose is a complex long chain of molecules and very few animals have the capacity to digest them. Digestion is the breakdown of food into smaller and simpler molecules. In order to breakdown cellulose we would have to have much larger digestive systems. That is one reason why the dinosaurs grew so big. They ate vegetation that contained a lot of cellulose, so in order to gain the nutrition it had to offer they needed huge gizzards (dinosaur stomachs).Just A Bit Of A Correction:Humans cannot digest cellulose because we lack the enzymes that are required to break the bonds that hold the glucose monomers together.It is not to do with the size of your digestive system!Some animals that can digest cellulose are:-kangaroos-koalas-cattleand other herbivores that host large bacterial populations.Although, cellulose is still important to humans as it helps to clear out the digestive system by scraping the lining of the large intestine, which stimulates the secrection fo mucus. This helps solids to move easily along the tract.Hope I helped! :)
Does cellulose make you gain weight?
No. instead Cellulose might induce weight loss by prolonging the feeling of satiety. Cellulose is the main component of cell walls of plants. It has no taste and no calorie value. Humans can not digest cellulose and so pass it to the colon from the small intestines. In the colon, cellulose absorbs water, increasing the size of the stool and making it softer. This way, cellulose helps the stool to pass through the colon easier, and therefore is helpful in the treatment and prevention of constipation, hemorrhoids and diverticulosis.
What lives in the digestive system of termites that allows them to digest wood?
It's either microorganisms or cellulose?I'm not really sure, try both if the question is inA Crossword Puzzleor a word searchHope this helps! :) Thanks!:)
What Emulsification agent helps to digest fat?
bile is the emulsification agent that helps to digest fats.
Does the common rat have an appendix?
I do know that rats have an appendix because i dissected one. I'm trying to figure out what its function is, and i think it helps digest cellulose mostly in herbivores.I think I remember vaguely that the appendix is bigger than the stomach and is used to digest things like tree nuts. And I have also recently dissected a rat!
