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Joke answer: The food checks in to a waiting room where it usually reads a magazine and waits. After a few minutes, the food is called into a special chamber by a secretary in which it undergoes surgery to be easier to digest. Then The food takes a cab to the large intestine.
Serious answer: Digestion starts in the mouth. The chewing is the first step, and the amylase enzyme starts converting starches to sugars. Then the food gets churned in a bath of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. That further breaks down the food. Then it enters the duodenum where the pancreas releases enzymes and the gallbladder releases bile. Then the mixture continues into the small intestine where many capillaries deliver the nutrients into the body. What is not digested continues to the large intestine and is eventually excreted from the body.
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Families can be further broken down into?
Orders.*
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
What types of reactions occurs when food is broken down into energy?
Physical Reaction: Your teeth grind up the food, which thus changes the food's physical shape Chemical Reaction: Enzymes in your saliva begin the digestion process by breaking down food particles so the stomach may digest it further; the hydrochloric acid in your stomach breaks the food down further so that the nutrients in the food may be absorbed into your blood stream; nutrients absorbed by blood are then converted into energy.
How are elements related to molecules?
Molecules are a combination of elements that form a pure substance that can be broken down further only by chemical means. Elements can't be broken down any further by chemical means (although nuclear reactions do break down chemicals). C6H12O6 (table sugar) is a molecule as it can be broken down further into the elements that make it up, carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O), while Fe (iron) can't be broken down any further into any other element.Molecule of an element: O2, H2Molecule of a compound: H2O, C2H5OH
What type of substance cannot be broken down into a simplier substance?
an element is a substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler form by chemical means
Without digestive enzymes the meal is useless to the body is this statement valid?
Yes. In order for the body to use food, the food must be broken down into it's most basic elements. Complex carbohydrates are broken into simple carbohydrates, proteins are broken down into amino acids and fats are broken down into fatty acids. Some of this break down takes place because of the acids in your stomach, but enzymes in the stomach and mouth are required to further dismantle food into usable nutreints.
What can a molecule be broken down into?
Atoms or elements. These can be broken down further into protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Families can be further broken down into?
Orders.*
Simple molecules are further broken down in cells in a process called?
Simple molecules are further broken down in cells in a process called catabolism.
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
How does food change in the mouth?
Physically is is chewed (so this is a purely physical breakdown). CHemically it reacts with the amylase in saliva and is broken down further.
Where food is broken down into molecules?
food isn't exactly broken into molecules. molecules are collections of atoms. those would be too small to see. but food is broken down so the nutrients can be gathered. the food is broken down in the stomach, then, the food goes through the intestines where the nutrients and water are gathered
What does caeca do in chicken?
The ceca contains bacteria that break down anything in the feed that the chicken itself could not break down in its stomach.
Why is lithium metal described as an element?
an element is a pure substance that can not be broken down further into other atoms and lithium can not be broken down further making it an element
What is food broken down by?
enzymes
When food is broken down where is the energy stored?
When food is broken down the stored energy is in your cells. When the energy is needed, the cells release the energy.
What is alcohol converted to?
It is converted to acetaldehyde and then further broken down in the liver.
