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to quickly digest food and absorb nutrients
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What is the function of an earthworms intestine?
The intestine aids in the digestion. It also absorbs and transfers nutrients and water into the bloodstream.
What function affects the efficiency of food absorption by folds of grasshopper and earthworm digestive tube?
The digestive tube structure in both earthworms and grasshoppers consists of several folds. These folds affect the efficiency of food absorption by increasing the surface area.
Do earthworms have a large and small intestine?
Yes, an earthworm has a large intestine and a small intestine.
When you die does the small intestine shrink?
No, the length increases. When you are alive, the muscles are contracted in folds, and when you die, these folds relax, expanding the small intestine.
What are Folds in the small intestine called?
permanent folds are called plicae circulares temporary folds are called rugae.
What do you find in the earthworms gizzard crop and intestine?
food
Deep folds of the mucosa and submucosa that extend completely around the circumference of the small intestine?
circular folds
WHAT ARE TINY FINGERLIKE PROJECTIONS THAT COVER THE FOLDS OF UR SMALL INTESTINE?
The villi are the tiny finger-like projections that cover the folds of the small intestine. The singular of villi is villus.
Why does the large intestine have many folds and bumps?
Becaus it does HaHAHAHAHA
What are the deep ridges in the small intestine mucosa?
The circular folds or plicae circularis are the permanent folds or ridges of the mucosa.
9 What is the function of the rugae in the stomach and villi in the small intestine?
both rugae and villi are specialized "folds". the rugae allow your stomach to expand when you eat (like a balloon) and the villi increase the surface area in your small intestine for nutrient absorption
Which of these forms large surface area of the small intestine?
folds and villi
