How Do Cattle Digest Complex Plant Polysaccharides Like Cellulose

question 85

Multiple Choice

How do cattle digest complex plant polysaccharides like cellulose?

• A)They have specialized mammalian enzymes to degrade the bonds of cellulose.
• B)Bacterial populations in one of the four compartments of their stomachs are able to break the bonds between adjacent glucose units of cellulose.
• C)Mechanical forces of cud-chewing break the cell walls of plant fibers, enabling the cattle to extract the digestible contents of the cells.
• D)Acids produced in the stomach degrade cellulose.