Question

define ruminants and holophytic
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Answer 1

Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. The process, which takes place in the front part of the digestive system and therefore is called foregut fermentation, typically requires the fermented ingesta (known as cud) to be regurgitated and chewed again. The process of rechewing the cud to further break down plant matter and stimulate digestion is called rumination.The word "ruminant" comes from the Latin ruminare, which means "to chew over again".

Holophytic nutrition is that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Answer 2

Answer:

The process by which the curd (partially digested food) is brought back from the stomata to the mouth of the animals and chewed again is called rumination.

(All animal which chew the curd are called ruminants)