Bacteria present in the digestive tracts of some herbivores function to:

a. provide bulk to their feces.
b. produce minerals for their hosts.
c. detoxify harmful materials found in the food.
d. digest the animal waste products from the herbivore diet.
e. digest the cellulose cell wall of plant cells.


e

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