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Both, saliva breaks down food chemically, and your teeth mechanically break down food by cutting, grinding, and mashing.
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How does mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown?
Mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown because when you chew, chemical breakdown is going on all at the same time. So, that is going to chemical because if you didn't have saliva (chemical breakdown) if would take real long to digest your food.
Is the gallbladder chemical or mechanical breakdown?
Since there is no machinery in the body, it is a chemical breakdown.
What waste chemical comes from the breakdown of proteins?
Breakdown of proteins produce aminoacids.
Is car fender breakdown by water air and salt a chemical breakdown?
yes
What is the name of the organ in the digestive system where the chemical breakdown of food primarily occurs?
Some chemical digestion of carbohydrates occurs in the mouth with salivary amylase. Most chemical digestion occurs in the duodenum of the small intestine.
What is term for the chemical breakdown of food in the mouth?
Mastication, commonly known as chewing, is the term for the mechanical breakdown of food in the mouth.
What is the first chemical step of digestion?
The breakdown of starch into sugars in the mouth.
What organs secrete enzymes which begin chemical digestion in the mouth?
The salivary glands in the mouth secrete enzymes in saliva that begin chemical digestion.
How does the esophagus perform mechanical digestion?
Peristalsis. The movement of muscles bringing the food to the stomach.
How does mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown?
Mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown because when you chew, chemical breakdown is going on all at the same time. So, that is going to chemical because if you didn't have saliva (chemical breakdown) if would take real long to digest your food.
How does mechanical breakdown affect chemical breakdown?
Mechanical breakdown makes food smaller so it wasn't be so large for the chemical breakdown.
When Food ground up in the mouth is it chemical change?
The act of grinding the food is not chemical change, as the same molacules are present in the same form, but there are many chemical reactions in the mouth (such as the breakdown of long chain carbohydrates), and other processes which aid digestion (mixture with mucus)
Is the gallbladder chemical or mechanical breakdown?
Since there is no machinery in the body, it is a chemical breakdown.
What is Chemical Breakdown?
Chemical Breakdown is the digestion of food being broken down by bones and physically.
Does mechanical breakdown increase speed of chemical breakdown?
Yes, mechanical breakdown increases the surface area available for chemical reactions to occur on and therefore the speed of the chemical processes.
What breakdown's food in the mouth?
Saliva
What is the physical change in food when it enters the esophagus?
the physical change in the change in food when the enters esophagus is when it has a chemical breakdown in your mouth with a mechanical breakdown the chemical breakdown is when your salivia is making the food moist the mechanical is when you chew the food so it easier for it to enter the esophagus and so the salivia can get it moist then your esophagus uses muscles to push the food down into your stomache
