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No mechanical changes take place while food is being digested. However a couple mechanical processes happen to aid digestion. The first of these is the chewing or grinding of the food in the mouth and the second of them is the peristaltic contractions of the muscles of the digestive system to churn up the food with the digestive juices and move it though the intestines.
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What kind of digestion happens when teeth cut up food?
That would be mechanical digestion.
Where does mechanical digestion and chemical digestion occur along the digestive tract?
Mechanical Digestion happens in the mouth where your food is physically broken down. Chemical digestion happens in your intestines, where enzymes break down and absorb nutirients
What does mechanical digestion mean?
Mechanical digestion happens in only in 2 of your digestion organs mouth and stomach. Mechanical digestion is the mechanical way you digest your food for example when your eating your teeth are mechanical digesting your food by making your food smaller by chewing on it your not changing your food in any way that only happens chemical digestion is happening.Another example of mechanical digestion is in your stomach when the food is bong to the stomach your stomach is squeezing mushing up the food to make it smaller (your stomach is made out of 3 lairs of mussel's which squeeze in all 3 different direction's).
How does Mechanical digestion happens in the stomach?
The stomach squeezes to help break down food.
What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?
Chemical digestion
Type of digestion when food is chewed?
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.
Mechanical digestion prepares food for what kind of digestion?
Chemical Digestion. Mechanical digestion is the chewing of your food while chemical digestion is the processes that further break down the food like your saliva and stomach acids.
Is tearing crushing ans mashing food the mechanical digestion?
Yes, that is what mechanical digestion is. §§
Why must mechanical digestion start before mechanical digestion?
Mechanical digestion must come first because it helps break down food
Where does mechanical digestion happen?
Mechanical digestion starts when food is chewed physically by the teeth (grinding and tearing the food), and the remaining steps of digestion continue from then on.
When food is chewed and mixed what type of digestion is it?
Mechanical digestion :)
