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Cellulose acts as a roughage in man but serves as a nutrient in cow. Justify your answer.
Cellulose acts as a roughage in man but serves as a nutrient in cow. Justify your answer.
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Cellulose: It is a complex polysaccharide made up of β- 1,4- linked d-glucose units.
- In our body cellulose acts as a roughage because the human digestive system is not able to digest it and break it down and hence it is removed from our body as such in the form of roughage.
Cow belongs to a class of animals known as ruminants. - They have a digestive system that allows them to digest cellulose using various microbes and enzymes necessary.
- They have a large fluid-filled digestive organ at the beginning of the digestive tract called the rumen, which contains a large population of microbes.
Cellulose: It is a complex polysaccharide made up of β- 1,4- linked d-glucose units.
- In our body cellulose acts as a roughage because the human digestive system is not able to digest it and break it down and hence it is removed from our body as such in the form of roughage.
Cow belongs to a class of animals known as ruminants. - They have a digestive system that allows them to digest cellulose using various microbes and enzymes necessary.
- They have a large fluid-filled digestive organ at the beginning of the digestive tract called the rumen, which contains a large population of microbes.
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