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What are used as a main structure in mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What are the 2 main kinds of digestion?
Mechanical and Chemical.
Vertebrates often have mechanical and chemical ways of digesting food what is a main part of mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?
Chemical digestion
Breaking down of food by churning in the stomach is an example of digestion?
The breaking down of food for the purpose of nutrition is called, "Digestion".
What are the types of digestion?
Chemical digestion and mechanical digestion
Is a large intestine a mechanical digestion?
Chewing is mechanical digestion.
What does mechanical digestion stand for?
Mechanical digestion stands for the break down of food by chewing. Mechanical digestion is the physical part of the digestion process of the human body.
What type of change that occurs in mechanical digestion?
By definition mechanical digestion is a physical part of digestion.
Where is the mechanical digestion competed?
Mechanical digestion in humans is completed in the stomach.
Is mouth 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.
Is absorption mechanical or chemical digestion?
does absorption occur when mechanical or chemical digestion
