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What are the two types of carbohydrates?

How do anaerobic microbes digest beta bonded cellulose?

In a ruminant, what is cellulose broken down to?

What happens to the acetate?

What happens to propionate?

What happens to butyrate

What factors influence fermentation?

In the fermentation of carbohydrate how come the products are acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid?

Why is it important that the rumen is never empty?

In normal animals which fatty acid is most abundant?