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Digestion
The small intestine is the organ responsible for both chemical digestion and absorption of nutrients from food. Enzymes and bile break down the food, while nutrients are absorbed through the small intestine's lining into the bloodstream for distribution to the body's cells.
The elastic organ where food is broken into very small pieces and mixed with gastric juice is the stomach. It has muscular walls that contract to churn the food, facilitating digestion. The gastric juice, which contains hydrochloric acid and enzymes, helps break down food further, preparing it for absorption in the intestines.
The organ responsible for most of the chemical digestion in the human body is mainly the stomach.
The liver produces bile, which is stored in the gallbladder and released into the small intestine to help break down fats during digestion.
Digestion includes the mixing of food, its movement through the digestive tract, and chemical breakdown of the larger pieces of food into smaller pieces. Digestion begins in the mouth, when we chew and swallow, and is completed in the SMALL INTESTINE.
Digestion starts when the turtle chews food in small pieces and mixes it with saliva, which has digestive enzymes in it.
It chew food in to small pieces and adds saliva for digestion. The process of digestion is to take large food particles and break them down into small food particles. Chewing mechanically reduces the size of the food particles. The saliva helps breaks down starch into sugar.
This is when food particles are breaking down into even tinier pieces by: hydrochloric acid in your stomach. That is chemical digestion.
The final process of digestion is accomplished in the small intestine. In subsequent portions of the digestive tract, water is reabsorbed from undigested food waste.
The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that help break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in the small intestine. This organ plays a crucial role in the chemical digestion of food.