What is fermentation?!
Please make it simple like putting it in your own words.
I appreciate the 'tries' (if you have/will)
10 credits for the answer that is most easily understood
Answers:
Fermentation is the conversion of sugar into alcohol & carbon dioxide by yeast.
In a cow, cellulose is digested by enzymes into waste fibre & methane.
Carbon dioxide & methane are greenhouse gases which cause climate change.
Methane gas, same thing being produced in your gut and why you can light your farts.
"In the rumen, or large fore-stomach, of these animals, microbial fermentation converts feed into products that can be digested and utilized by the animal. This microbial fermentation process, referred to as enteric fermentation, produces methane as a by-product, which can be exhaled by the animal. Methane is also produced in smaller quantities by the digestive processes of other animals, including humans, but emissions from these sources are insignificant"(Not what my wife says)
Fermentation in food processing typically is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, bacteria, or a combination thereof, under anaerobic conditions. A more restricted definition of fermentation is the chemical conversion of sugars into ethanol. The science of fermentation is known as zymurgy.
WikiPedia
This is the best I can do. Visit this site.
http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/farm/content/mi…
I think your talking about a cows general digestion. Just like us they eat and pass gas, which is methane, a greenhouse gas.
methane gas
gas?
