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Does mechanical or chemical digestion take place in the rectum?

welll it takes place in both mechanical and chemical


What are three places that chemical digestion take place in?

Were does chemical digestion take place


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.


What type of Mechanical digestion takes place in your mouth stomach and small intestines I?

Chemical and mechanical ingestion take place in the mouth. Chemical and mechanical digestion also take place in the stomach. Chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine.Ingestion, digestion then absorption.In the mouth, both chemical digestion and mechanical digestion happen. The mechanical part is your teeth crushing the food into smaller pieces. The chemical part is when the salivary glands give off a special fluid that contains enzymes. When food enters the stomach, an enzyme is released that helps to digest food chemicaly. The muscles in the stomach also digest food mechanicly. Lastly, the small intestine completes the chemical and mechanical digestion of food. The small intestine takes out all the useful matirial and sends it to the cells as tiny molecules that the cells use in cellular resparation.Baisicly, they all use chemical and mechanical digestion.


Could chemical digestion take place if mechanical digestion did not occur?

Mechanical digestion, i.e. your body breaking up the food into smaller pieces, is largely meant to speed chemical digestion up. We know that the rate at which the chemical reaction takes place is dependent on four things: the physical state of the reactants involved in the reaction, the temperature at which the reaction takes place, the concentration of the reactants, and the presence of a catalyst. Each influences the rate of reaction in different ways. Mechanical digestion breaks the food into smaller pieces, i.e. changes the physical state. With the larger pieces broken into smaller ones, more surface area is exposed. With greater surface area exposure, chemical digestion can take place much more rapidly. However, if for some reason you could get just huge chunks of food down your throat without chewing it, your stomach still churns (mechanical digestion) and the contractions in your intestines also help to break up food. So technically yes, chemical digestion would take place, but at a much slower and inefficient manner.


Where does most of the mechanical digestion take place?

in the mouth when you chew


Where does mechanical digestion take place at the most?

The mouth, by the teeth.


Where do chemical digestion take place?

In the duodenum


When does mechanical digestion take place?

Mostly in the mouth (mastication) and the stomach.


Type of digestion that takes place in the mouth and stomach?

Both chemical and mechanical digestion take place in the mouth and stomach. The organs both break food into smaller parts, and use enzymes to break down food chemically.


Where does most mechananical digesten take place?

Mechanical digestion is mainly in the mouth.


What is the mechanical digestion that prepares the food for the digestion?

Digestion can be mechanical or chemical. Mechanical digestion is the process of physically (i.e. not involving biochemical enzyme) breaking food down into smaller pieces, creating a greater surface area for chemical digestion to take place. Examples of mechanical digestion include the churning motion of your stomach and obviously, the chewing process of your mouth. Chemical digestion, on the other hand, requires the presences of enzymes to trigger chemical reaction and break the food particles down to simpler substances. Examples include the salivary amylase breaking down sugar, stomach acid and gastric enzymes breaking down proteins, and the lipase breaking down lipids in the small intestine.