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Does both chemical and mechanical digestion break down food into smaller units?
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Yes, both chemical and mechanical digestion break down food into smaller units.
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How is mechanical digestion is different than chemical digestion?
Chemical digestion uses enzymes and other chemicals to break the bonds in food. Mechanical digestion is basically the teeth grinding the food into physically smaller pieces.
A Comparison of mechanical digestion and chemical digestion?
chemical digestion is breaking down with saliva, and mechanical digestion is chewing...(break down with chew!):):P
Type of digestion that involves using enzymes and other body acid to break food down into smaller molecules?
Mechanical digestion is the physical mashing and pulling apart of food like chewing your food. Chemical digestion uses acids and enzymes to chemically break down the food until it is small enough to be absorbed through the wall of the small intestine.
Are teeth chemical or mechanical digestion?
Salivary Glands performs Chemical Digestion
Mechanical digestion prepares food for what kind of digestion?
Chemical Digestion. Mechanical digestion is the chewing of your food while chemical digestion is the processes that further break down the food like your saliva and stomach acids.
Why must mechanical digestion start before chemical digestion?
Mechanical digestion must come first because it helps break down food
Where does mechanical digestion and chemical digestion occur along the digestive tract?
Mechanical Digestion happens in the mouth where your food is physically broken down. Chemical digestion happens in your intestines, where enzymes break down and absorb nutirients
Why must chemical digestion must start before chemical digestion?
Mechanical digestion must come first because it helps break down food
Type of digestion that takes place in the mouth and stomach?
Both chemical and mechanical digestion take place in the mouth and stomach. The organs both break food into smaller parts, and use enzymes to break down food chemically.
What is the similarities between mechanical and chemical digestion?
They both break down food. Mechanical digestion literally breaks it down by grinding it. Whereas chemical digestion uses amylase (saliva that contains an enzyme) To break down the foods from starch to simple sugars.
What are two phases of the digestive process?
mechanical grinding of food, chemical break down
Compare mechanical and chemical digestion?
actually the mechanical digestion takes place first in our body that is the whole process of digestion we normally study. where the whole process is of getting things like glucose, minerals, proteins etc.. but the chemical digestion takes place at the cellular level means in the cells that is the break down of glucose in getting energy to work or metabolism of the cells
