The correct answer is D. It is lost to the environment. Hope this helps!
<h2>Microbes and ruminants relation</h2>
Explanation:
The mixture of microbes allows the host animal to produce a much wider variety of digestive enzymes, far more than the host could encode in their own genome
- The microbes in the gut of ruminants include bacteria,fungi and protozoa
- These microbes helps the ruminant animals to digest food,without the microbes these animals would die
- The microbes break down feed to produce volatile fatty acids, which are used by the cow(ruminant animal) as energy for maintenance and milk production
The importance is that the second one has more surface area because it has the outside are and the inside area too
