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What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract?
PeristalsisPeristalsis
What moves around food in the body?
Food moves through the digestive tract.
What are the nutrients that moves through the digestive tract?
Fiber is the nutrient that helps move food through the digestive tract. It provides bulk, which activates the stretch receptors in the muscles of the digestive tract, stimulating them to activity.
In earthworms how is food passed through the digestive tract?
The food is passed through the digestive tract when the worm moves. The movement causes the muscles to contract and move the food through the system.
The type of involuntary muscle that moves food through the digestive tract is called?
smooth muscle
As food moves through the digestive tract it spends the most time in the?
large intestine (colon)
Which two actions help to propel a bolus of food through the digestive tract?
Propulsion is the movement of food down the esophagus and peristalsis is the contractions in the stomach walls that moves food through the digestive tract.
What is it that moves food along through the digestive tract even when we are lying down or floating in the weightlessness of space?
Peristalsis, a series of muscle contractions in the intestines and stomach that help to push the food through your digestive tract.
What muscle or tissue moves food through the digestive tract?
it goes to the small intenstine but breaks down by pepsin
What makes up the fiber that absorbs toxins as it moves through the intestinal tract of an animal's digestive system?
Cellulose
Food moves through the digestive tract by wavelike contractions called?
Peristalsis is a series of involuntary smooth muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract that move food through the digestive tractperistalsis
What is a wave like muscular movement that pushes food through the alimentary canal is known as the?
Food moves through the digestive tract as a result of peristaltic motion, or peristalsis.
