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What parts of the body are responsible for mechanical digestion?
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∙ 10y ago
The teeth (in the mouth) - for chewing, and the muscles around the gut - for peristalsis.
Leo Bergnaum
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What body parts is not involved in mechanical digestion?
Chemical digestion takes place in the stomach, the intestines, (saliva or enzymes) these parts of your body also use mechanical digestion.
What does mechanical digestion stand for?
Mechanical digestion stands for the break down of food by chewing. Mechanical digestion is the physical part of the digestion process of the human body.
Was is mechanical digestion?
The very minute food enters the mouth it goes through the digestion process. There are 2 digestive system function processes that take place in our body. These 2 processes are the mechanical digestion and the chemical digestion.
Where does digestion in your body began?
Digestion begins in the mouth right after ingestion. There is mechanical and chemical digestion. Your teeth breaks up the food into smaller pieces (mechanical digestion) and your saliva contains salivary amylase which digests starch into maltose (chemical digestion).
What areas of the body does mechanical digestion occur?
mouth,stomach and small intestine
Compare mechanical and chemical digestion?
actually the mechanical digestion takes place first in our body that is the whole process of digestion we normally study. where the whole process is of getting things like glucose, minerals, proteins etc.. but the chemical digestion takes place at the cellular level means in the cells that is the break down of glucose in getting energy to work or metabolism of the cells
Which body parts are included in chemical digestion?
the stomach
2 types of digestion are?
Mechanical Digestion (ex. chewing your food) and Chemical Digestion (ex. your spit breaking down the food). Those examples happen in the mouth, but both types happen elsewhere in the body, too.
Process by which the body takes in and uses food?
The human body breaks down food for absorption and assimilation through the process of digestion. Both mechanical and chemical digestion is used to spread the food pieces through the human body.
The main steps of digestion in humans are and?
-Mechanical Digestion, which is when we chew our food in our mouths.-Chemical Digestion, when the acids in our stomach and intestines accually break it down to enable the body to absorb the nutrients and excrete the waste.
Which organ is most important in digestion?
The organ responsible for most of the chemical digestion in the human body is mainly the stomach.
What is the job of the mouth on a human body?
It is the first step in the digestion system. It uses chemical digestion by using the sylivia to brake down food and uses mechanical digestion by using the teeth to do the exact same job.
