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Fiber is the nutrient that helps move food through the digestive tract. It provides bulk, which activates the stretch receptors in the muscles of the digestive tract, stimulating them to activity.
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What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract?
PeristalsisPeristalsis
What moves around food in the body?
Food moves through the digestive tract.
In earthworms how is food passed through the digestive tract?
The food is passed through the digestive tract when the worm moves. The movement causes the muscles to contract and move the food through the system.
Which two actions help to propel a bolus of food through the digestive tract?
Propulsion is the movement of food down the esophagus and peristalsis is the contractions in the stomach walls that moves food through the digestive tract.
The type of involuntary muscle that moves food through the digestive tract is called?
smooth muscle
As food moves through the digestive tract it spends the most time in the?
large intestine (colon)
What is it that moves food along through the digestive tract even when we are lying down or floating in the weightlessness of space?
Peristalsis, a series of muscle contractions in the intestines and stomach that help to push the food through your digestive tract.
After digestion how do animals get nutrients?
animals get nutrients during digestion. the good stuff is absorbed through the digestive tract while the waste comes out of the anus.
Does poop develop in your body?
Yes, poop aka feces is what develops as food moves through your digestive tract. It is made of what is left after your stomach, small intestine, and colon absorbs nutrients and fluids from what you eat and drink.
What makes up the fiber that absorbs toxins as it moves through the intestinal tract of an animal's digestive system?
Cellulose
What muscle or tissue moves food through the digestive tract?
it goes to the small intenstine but breaks down by pepsin
What is the term that describes the process in which nutrients pass through the walls of the gastrointestinal tract?
The answers given here are wrong.The correct answer is assimilation.
