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What must occur so food can pass though the wall of the alimentary canal?

For food to properly pass through the alimentary canal, digestion must first occur. The process of moving food through the alimentary canal is called propulsion.


How is food moved along the alimentary canal?

The involuntary motion that moves food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis and is a wavelike contraction and relaxation of the intestinal wall smooth muscles. It pushes food along the intestine.


How is food moved in alimentary canal?

The food goes right through the digestive system from one end to the other, and is egested in the faeces.


What is the path of a bolus of food through the alimentary canal?

stomach


What is the muscular movement responsible for the movement of food through the alimentary canal?

The muscular movement of the intestinal canal is called peristalsis.


How does food and water enter the Alimentary Canal?

Through the mouth


Smooth muscle propels food through the alimentary canal by a process called?

The process in which muscles propel food through the alimentary canal is called peristalsis.


Name the part of the alimentary canal where food enters the alimentary canal?

mouth (oesophagus)


How does the food move down toward the stomach?

A series of muscular contractions, which squeeze the alimentary canal, called peristalsis, are what moves food all the way through the alimentary canal, from beginning to end.


Does the muscular system move fluid substances through hollow organs?

Food in its varying states of digestion is moved through the hollow alimentary canal by means of a series of muscular contractions known as peristalsis, which squeezes the alimentary canal, in much the way that you would squeeze a tube of toothpaste to move toothpaste through the tube.


What is the path of food in a person?

Alimentary canal.


Why is the liver not part of the alimentary canal?

Think of the alimentary canal as being a tube that carries and processes food. The liver processes/cleans blood and stores energy, and is not directly associated with the processing of food...therefore not part of the alimentary canal.