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All teeth are used in physical digestion and break-down of food before swallowing.
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How is machanicle digestion different for cheminal digestion?
mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.
How does the health of a person's teeth affect digestion?
Teeth are involved in the mechanical digestion process. If they are not healthy they will not work properly to chew food.
Is digest a physical change?
Digestion involves both physical and chemical changes. The teeth crush food into smaller particles, which is a physical change, whereas the saliva, stomach, gall bladder, and pancreas contain chemicals that break down food chemically in the mouth, stomach, and small intestines.
What kind of digestion happens when teeth cut up food?
That would be mechanical digestion.
What is the function of the teeth in digestion?
To chew the food.
What part of digestion involves a physical change?
mechanical digestion
Why animals must have teeth?
So they can chew (to prevent choking) and enzymes (saliva-for digestion) for digestion.
What type of change that occurs in mechanical digestion?
By definition mechanical digestion is a physical part of digestion.
How do the teeth aid in the digestion of food?
Teeth help by mechanical digestion, which is breaking the food in smaller pieces in order for the saliva to cover it and make it easier to digest.
What type of digestion is teeth grinding food?
our teeth break down food physically which is called mechanical break down
Which digestive processes take place in the mouth chemical digestion or physical digestion?
Both:Enzymes in saliva chemically chop starches down into simple sugars (i.e. monosaccharides and disaccharides).The teeth mechanically crush and chop the food into smaller pieces.
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.
