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How long would it take for a sewing needle to pas through your digestive tract?
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∙ 10y ago
it could take anywere from 1-3 days just like food would but only if it doesn't cut anything in side you
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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.
What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract?
PeristalsisPeristalsis
What propels foods through the digestive tract?
peristalsis plays a large role in moving food through the digestive tract
What is the definition of absorption in the digestive tract?
The definition of absorption in the digestive tract is is the process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of your digestive system onto your blood
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 movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by?
The movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by muscles. Muscles produce a narrowing which pushes the food through each of the digestive organs until it reaches the entrance of the stomach.
What is the opening through the wastes that leaves the digestive tract?
The Anus
What passes through the digestive tract as fiber or roughage?
cellulose
Which part of the brain assists the digestive system by moving food through the digestive tract?
Hypothalamus. Answer for A+
Does undigested foods leave the digestive tract through the small intestine?
No Through the anus.
How does food move through an earthworm's digestive tract?
it wiggles its way through the soil.
What is leech digestive tract?
Leeches have a complete digestive tract. Leeches are members of Phylum Annelida. This phylum has the general characteristic of having a complete digestive tract, i.e. food goes in through the mouth, pass through digestive tract of some sort like stomach and/or intestine, waste gets discarded through some sort of rectal opening, i.e. anus. In comparison, an incomplete digestive tract generally means food goes in and waste come out of the same opening, i.e. mouth=anus. Lower level invertebrates have incomplete digestive tract like Phylum Cnidaria and Phylum Platyhelminthes members.
