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Q: How is oxygen related to digestion?
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What role does oxygen play in the ECT of aerobic respiration?

Anaerobic digestion means no oxygen.


What does the spleen do during digestion?

The spleen is not really related to digestion, so it pretty much just sits there and performs its normal spleenic non-digestion-related functions.


Do red blood cells help digestion?

Red blood cells have only one function, which is to transport oxygen. This has no direct connection to digestion, although without oxygen the body would die, and no digestion would take place after death.


What is anaerobic digestion process?

This is a digestion process in the absence of oxygen. This process however do not take place in the living body.


How are the two stages of digestion related?

There are four stages: ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.


Will the dissolved oxygen in the water be absorbed during digestion?

Dissolved Oxygen can diffused through the membrane in digestion system by concentration gradient however the amount absorbed should be minimal or negligible.


Does water undergo chemical digestion in the stomach?

Water remains water throughout the digestion process. It is not broken down into oxygen and hydrogen.


How are digestion and cellular respiration related?

In heterotrophs digestion provide glucose molecules.These molecules are oxidized in respiration


What is the breaking down of food molecules without the use of oxygen?

Anaerobic digestion


How does digestion connect photosynthesis to respiration?

Sorry to disappoint you, but digestion DOES NOT connect photosynthesis to respiration. Photosynthesis and respiration comes from plants and animals, when the animal breathes out CO2, and they receive the oxygen when the plant inhales the CO2 and breathes out oxygen. That's it. And the cycle repeats just like that. NOTHING with digestion. Trust me.


Which organelle is closely related to intracellular digestion?

Digestion which takes place within the cytoplasm of the organism, as in many unicellular protozoans.


What is the process that occurs as food and oxygen combine in mitochondria?

Digestion, this then creates energy for the cell