How does digestion take place
in ruminants?
Answers
check the cute ruminant in the attachment!! ^^ like other vertebrates, ruminant Artiodactyla (including cattle, deer, and their relatives) are unable to digest plant material directly, because they lack enzymes to break down cellulose in the cell walls. Digestion in ruminants occurs sequentially in a four-chambered stomach. Plant material is initially taken into the Rumen, where it is processed mechanically and exposed to bacteria than can break down cellulose (foregut fermentation)...The Reticulum allows the animal to regurgitate & reprocess particulate matter. More finely-divided food is then passed to the Omasum, for further mechanical processing. The mass is finally passed to the true stomach, the Abomassum, where the digestive enzyme lysozyme breaks down the bacteria so as to release nutrients. Use of plant material is thus indirect, with primary processing by the bacterial flora maintained in the stomach.
The Perissodactyla (including horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs) have evolved a less efficient a lysozyme with similar enzymatic properties, due to selection on independent mutations to produce identical amino acids at key active sites...
Explanation:
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