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What organisms are holobionts? According to modern scientists, organisms are holobionts, and life is sympoietic. The term “holobiont” refers to the scientific conclusion that organisms are integrated consortia of a host organism plus numerous species of other symbiotic organisms. With few (if any) exceptions, animals and plants are holobionts, federated partnerships of numerous species functioning together to generate a healthy organism. For example: 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️In the adult human body, microbes account for approximately half of cells, and these bacteria, fungi, protists, and archaea are critical for healthy physiology, development, and immunity. 🐄 Cows are herbivores, but there are no genes in their bovine nuclei that encode grass-digesting enzymes, and these cellulose-digesting enzymes come from the set of microbes living within the rumen of the cattle’s guts. 🪸 In coral, most of the animal’s carbon resources are derived from the photosynthetic reactions of its algal symbionts. Subscribe- t.me/askmenow