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What is part of the earthworm's digestive system that grinds food?
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∙ 11y ago
The Gizzard, it's the part of the worm that grinds up foods or solids.
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Which organ mechanically grinds food in a birds digestive system?
Beak
What is wide and flat in the digestive system that grinds food in to pulp called?
Molars
What structure grinds up what earthworms eat?
The gizzard is the structure that grinds up the food.
What part of the digestive system that cuts grinds and tears food?
its ur TEETH
What organ system does the gizzard belong to?
A gizzard is a muscular organ inside a bird that grinds up food.
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.
How is an earthworms digestive system adapted for extracting small amounts of food and large amounts of soil?
you people better figure it out or else......
Which digestive system components allow for mastication?
Since mastication means "chewing", the teeth since it grinds up food and maybe the tongue and salivary glands which aid in the breaking down of food.
What is the function of the crop in the digestive system?
The function of the crop in the digestive system of the the bird is to temporarily store food for later digestion. In seed eating birds the crop is like a pouch in the esophagus and no real digestion occurs there it occurs in the gizzard which grinds it all up.
What is the function of the gizzard of an earthworm?
Yes the gizzard diggests the food / crushes it
Why does the crayfish have a digestive gland when it already has an intestine?
The crayfish has both stomach and digestive gland because the stomach (pyloric and cardiac) grinds and stores the food while the digestive gland secretes enzymes to help break the food down.
How is the earthworms digestive system adapted for extracting relatively small amounts of food from large amounts of ingested soil?
The gizzard is a muscular organ used to churn the food and then it moves onto the intestine where absorption of the food occurs.
