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Cellulose - page 3
What happens to cellulose in the human alimentary canal?
Humans cannot digest cellulose. However, it is consumed in the diet as fibre. Fibre helps the digestive system to keep the food moving through the gut...
Can cellulose be hydrolyzed by most animals?
Most mammals have limited ability to digest dietary fiber such as cellulose. Some ruminants like cows and sheep contain certain symbiotic anaerobic ba...
Is cellulose an animal starch?
Examples of homopolysaccharides that are important in animal nutrition include starch (nonstructural form), glycogen (animal form), and cellulose (pla...
Is cellulose living material?
Is cellulose living or nonliving material?Is cellulose alive?What is cellulose material?Do all living things have cellulose?Are tissues living or non...
Can cellulose be broken down by cows?
Ruminant Digestion. Like other vertebrates, ruminant Artiodactyla (including cattle, deer, and their relatives) are unable to digest plant material di...