digestion
The tongue doesn't necessarily help with digestion, but the enzymes produced in the mouth by the salivary glands, called amylase, so help to break down food into smaller molecules that can be absorbed more easily. The teeth also help to break down food.
Teeth are used to chew food, this is a process called mastication. The teeth help break the food into smaller pieces, while the food is predigested by your saliva. This makes the food easier to swallow, and travel down your esophagus.
Woodlice do not have teeth. They have specialized mouthparts that help them break down decaying vegetation for food. Instead of teeth, they use these mouthparts to scrape and chew their food.
The teeth start to break down food into smaller pieces. Additionally, the saliva produced by the chewing action, begins the digestion process.
The mouth breaks down food by both mechanical (chewing) and chemical (enzymes in saliva) processes. This helps to physically and chemically break down food into smaller molecules that the body can absorb. Saliva also helps to moisten food and initiate the digestion process.
Yeah!Your teeth are what help break down food in the digestive system. But i mean if you have someone or something to grind your food down you'd be ok because you'd still be consuming nutrients.
Antibodies are not used to break down food.
Mastication is the process of chewing food with the help of teeth, tongue, and jaw muscles to break down the food into smaller pieces for easier swallowing and digestion. It also mixes saliva with food to start the digestive process by breaking down carbohydrates.
your teeth and tong. as you chew your teeth crush and grind the food into small pieces, the saliva causes the food to chemically break down and your tong moves it around in your mouth to make the small ball that can be swallowed.
Digestion is the process by which organisms break down food.
The gall bladder, liver, pancreas, salivary glands all do their part to break down food.
They help by breaking the food down just like humans do.............................