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How is the function of the small intestine different from the function of the large intestine?
The stomach and small intestine both help with digestion. However, the stomach breaks down the food with acids and is mostly a large cavity, while the small intestine absorbs the nutrients and is a long winding path.
What organ breaks down food for cells?
The digestive system breaks down food to provide energy and nutrition. In humans, its organs include the teeth and tongue, salivary glands. esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, and colon.
Which body system breaks down food for the absoption into the blood?
The small and large intestine (water in the large and vitamins and minerals in the small), which is part of the digestive system.
Does jelly get broken down in the small intestine?
Food breaks down in the stomach, not the intestines.
How the small intestines break down the food?
GALBLADDER and PANCREAS
What body part breaks down food?
In your mouth, saliva from your salivary glands chemically breaks down carbohydrates and lipids. Your stomach chemically breaks down food with hydrochloric acid and makes the food soupy. Enzymes and other substances continue the break down of food in the small intestine. So, food is chemically broken down in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine.
What does the liver do while food is in the small intestine?
It makes bile, an acid that breaks down your food.
What is the type of digestion that breaks down food into molecules that can be absorbed?
small intestine
What is the function of the intestine grasshopper?
The intestines in a grasshopper does everything a normal intestine does. It breaks down the food and disposes of waste.
Where does most digestion occur and how?
most digestion occurs in the small intestine where all the nutrients and minerals are extracted and put ino the bloodstream. the stomach just breaks the food down so it can get into the intestine
What breaks down large food particles in a cell?
lysosomes, round structures in cells that breaks down large food particles
How does the small intestine benefit your bodies?
the small intestine benefits the body because it breaks down the food even more......:)
