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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.
What is the thing that ruminants can digest and humans cannot?
It is Cellulose
Ruminants need special enzymes to digest?
cellulose.
What is the type of carbohydrates that can be digested by ruminants but not by humans?
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.
Is a termite a ruminant animal?
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.
What type of carbohydrate can only be digested by ruminants and not humans by?
cellulose which is present in grass can be digested by ruminants but cannot be digested by humans
Digestive system of ruminants?
The digestive system of ruminants consists of four stomach.
What are differences between glucose and cellulose?
Both of these are complex sugars, but glucose is water soluble and easily metabolized, but cellulose is water insoluble and is very difficult to metabolize.
What are the major differences in nutritional requirements of ruminants and non-ruminants?
The major difference is protein sources. Ruminants require less protein than non-ruminants, and consequently require more fibre in their diet than non-ruminants. Non-ruminants cannot digest fibre and cellulose nearly as well as ruminants can, and thus need higher concentrate feedstuffs to actually do well.
Why does the food living the reticulum in ruminants goes back to the mouth for re chewing?
Cellulose is difficult to digest. It requires a lengthy process.
Is cellulose digestible?
No, cannot break one of the beta bonds connecting the units of cellulose. Ruminants (e.g. cows, sheep) can however digest cellulose in their rumen, not themselves but because of the complex microorganisms living in their rumen.
