You are collaborating with an anthropologist in studying a group of individuals in South America that lives in a remote region of the Amazon and eats primarily roots of plants, seeds, leaves, and little meat. Which group, Bacteriodetes or Firmicutes, do you expect to be in a higher relative concentration in their gut microbiota relative to a group of individuals that has a diet with greater amounts of meat?

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