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Where Food is moved through the alimentary canal?
colon
Name the part of the alimentary canal where food enters the alimentary canal?
mouth (oesophagus)
How is food moved along the alimentary canal?
The involuntary motion that moves food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis and is a wavelike contraction and relaxation of the intestinal wall smooth muscles. It pushes food along the intestine.
What must occur so food can pass though the wall of the alimentary canal?
For food to properly pass through the alimentary canal, digestion must first occur. The process of moving food through the alimentary canal is called propulsion.
What is the path of food in a person?
Alimentary canal.
Why is the liver not part of the alimentary canal?
Think of the alimentary canal as being a tube that carries and processes food. The liver processes/cleans blood and stores energy, and is not directly associated with the processing of food...therefore not part of the alimentary canal.
What is the muscular movement responsible for the movement of food through the alimentary canal?
The muscular movement of the intestinal canal is called peristalsis.
Where does food move by peristalsis?
In alimentary canal from throat to stomach.
What is the path of a bolus of food through the alimentary canal?
stomach
How does the food move down toward the stomach?
A series of muscular contractions, which squeeze the alimentary canal, called peristalsis, are what moves food all the way through the alimentary canal, from beginning to end.
How does food and water enter the Alimentary Canal?
Through the mouth
The digestive tract is also called the alimentary canal?
The digestive tract is called alimentary canal because its parts form a long tube through which we absorb the nutrition in our food. The word "alimentary" comes from the Latin word for nourishment, alimentum.
