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Teeth are extremely important in mechanical digestion of food. It is very difficult to digest the large pieces of food. Only properly masticated food is easily digested. You do not have other organs, which can grind food like your teeth do. Nature has made teeth very hard for this function.
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Why is mechanical digestion important for chemical. Digestion?
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.
Digestion occurs through both mechanical and chemical ways what is involved directly in mechanical digestion?
teeth
What type of digestion is teeth grinding food?
our teeth break down food physically which is called mechanical break down
How is machanicle digestion different for cheminal digestion?
mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.
What are used as a main structure in mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What kind of digestion happens when teeth cut up food?
That would be mechanical digestion.
Where does mechanical digestion happen?
Mechanical digestion starts when food is chewed physically by the teeth (grinding and tearing the food), and the remaining steps of digestion continue from then on.
What is most responsible for the mechanical breakdown?
They are the teeth. Stomach also involve in mechanical digestion
What 2 types of digestion takes place in the mouth?
Mechanical and chemical digestion. In mechanical digestion the teeth breakdown food into smaller pieces and in chemical digestion the salivary glands breaks down the food molecules.
Where does mechanical digestion take place at the most?
The mouth, by the teeth.
How does the health of a person's teeth affect digestion?
Teeth are involved in the mechanical digestion process. If they are not healthy they will not work properly to chew food.
Are teeth chemical or mechanical digestion?
Salivary Glands performs Chemical Digestion
