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2. Cecotrope - Wikipedia

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   One strategy to get the needed nutrition is used by ruminants in which they chew cud in order to process their food a second time. [23] [18] Another strategy used by horses is to have an elongated colon to increase the time spent during digestion and absorption. [13] Both of these strategies add substantial bulk to the animal.

3. Ruminant - Wikipedia

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   As bacteria conduct fermentation in the rumen, they consume about 10% of the carbon, 60% of the phosphorus, and 80% of the nitrogen that the ruminant ingests. [31] To reclaim these nutrients, the ruminant then digests the bacteria in the abomasum. The enzyme lysozyme has adapted to facilitate digestion of bacteria in the ruminant abomasum. [32]

4. Cud - Wikipedia

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   Accordingly, these animals rely on a symbiotic relationship with a wide range of microbes, which largely reside in the reticulorumen, and which are able to synthesize the requisite enzymes. The reticulorumen thus hosts a microbial fermentation which yields products (mainly volatile fatty acids and microbial protein), which the ruminant is able ...

5. Rennet - Wikipedia

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   Rennet (/ ˈ r ɛ n ɪ t /) is a complex set of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals. Chymosin, its key component, is a protease enzyme that curdles the casein in milk. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other enzymes, such as pepsin and a lipase.

6. Resistant starch - Wikipedia

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   The concept of resistant starch arose from research in the 1970s [8] and is currently considered to be one of three starch types: rapidly digested starch, slowly digested starch and resistant starch, [9] [10] each of which may affect levels of blood glucose.

7. Amylase - Wikipedia

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   In animals, it is a major digestive enzyme, and its optimum pH is 6.7–7.0. [3] ... Unlike humans whose amylase levels depend on starch content in diet, wild animals ...