nether, the epiglottis is a flap of tissue that prevents you from chocking its doesn't digest anything
Chemical digestion
Chemical digestion and mechanical digestion
None, because it does not digest anything. It just makes swallowing (w/ saliva) and eating much easier for us, so we do not have the choke everytime.
does absorption occur when mechanical or chemical digestion
Saliva begins the chemical digestion of starch. It also is important for the success of mechanical digestion of the mouth, but does not, in its own, perform mechanical digestion.
Mechanical and chemical digestion are not the same.
chemical digestion is breaking down with saliva, and mechanical digestion is chewing...(break down with chew!):):P
Mechanical
Mechanical
Mechanical digestion chops the food in to smaller pieces, thus exposing more of it to the enzymes of the chemical digestion.Mechanical digestion begins in the mouth by the teeth, tongue and saliva. Mechanical digestion is important for chemical digestion because when food is broken down into smaller particles by mechanical means, chemical digestion will be more efficient.
what is responsible for chemical digestion in earthworms
The tongue is involved in mechanical digestion.