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Yes, your teeth are responsible for mastication (chewing). Your responsible (front big teeth) are responding for cutting/biting, your canines (sharp pointy teeth) are responsible for tearing, and your molars (flat teeth located on the sides) are for chewing.
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What organ is responsible for mastigation?
The mouth, tongue and throat assist in mastication and speech. The entire oral cavity including the teeth are essential to both operations.
Manipulates food in mastication?
Teeth and the tongue?
Which muscle of mastication would be responsible for mandibular?
temporalis
What organ mechanically breaks up food during mastication?
teeth
What is the medical term meaning chewing?
I believe the answer is masticate. The act of chewing is mastication.
What type of change occurs when teeth cut and grind food?
Mastication (when teeth cut and grind food) is a physical change.
Masseter and temporalis muscles are used for?
They are responsible for mastication process (i.e)chewing the food
Which digestive system components allow for mastication?
Since mastication means "chewing", the teeth since it grinds up food and maybe the tongue and salivary glands which aid in the breaking down of food.
A muscle that assists with mastication?
Your tongue assists with mastication. Mastication mainly is done by the Temporal Mandibular muscles though.
What happens in that first step of digestion?
Mastication - chewing. Your saliva, coupled with the chewing actions of your jaw/teeth, begin the disgestion process.
What are teeth used in the digestion?
Teeth are used to chew food, this is a process called mastication. The teeth help break the food into smaller pieces, while the food is predigested by your saliva. This makes the food easier to swallow, and travel down your esophagus.
Why do animals grow teeth?
For the same reason as humans. Teeth are essential for the mastication (chewing) stage of digestion. Teeth can also be used as a defence mechanism for many animals.
