(November 6, 2014 at 2:10 am)Aractus Wrote: No, humans would still digest food (saliva begins the process in the mouth), and some absorption of the digested food would still take place, but yes bacteria is required as part of the normal digestive process in humans, and other animals.
I am thinking you may want to revise the above bolded statement
http://textbookofbacteriology.net/normalflora.html
General overview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome
(see References for validation)
Further reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_digestive_system
Shit, to think that I studied this sans the availability of Google!
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