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What is the organ that grinds up food in an earthworm?
The gizzard.
What is the function of gizzards?
The gizzard must be tough, for the gizzard's main function is to grind and digest tough food.
What is the function of the gizzard of an earthworm?
Yes the gizzard diggests the food / crushes it
What does gizzard do in an earthworm?
The gizzard is a digestive organ that helps breakdown food in the earthworm. similar to the turkeys gizzard. The turkey also has a gizzard that serves the same purpose.
How are crop and gizzard different?
The crop stores food and the gizzard is used to mechanically break food down into smaller pieces.
How is food digested in an earthworm?
It has an esophagus for the food to go down, a crop to store the food in, a gizzard that grinds the food down, intestines for the food to pass through and take out nutrients.
Birds crush and grind food in the?
with the gizzard
What Grinds the food in an earthworm?
In the gizzard.
What happens in the insects gizzard?
In the insect gizzard, food is ground into finer particles that are more readily digested and absorbed.
What the purpose of a gizzard on a owl?
In most birds a gizzard is sort of a 'second' stomach. It grinds food and breaks it up by mechanical digestion before chemical digestion can start. Some birds eat stones or bits of bone or bark that can be found in the gizzard and help with breaking down the food theat they eat.
What is inside the crop gizzard and intestines of a worm?
The gizzard is a muscular organ used for grinding food during digestion. After a worm sucks in food with their pharynx, it moves to the esophagus, then to the crop to store it, then to the gizzard, to the stomach, to the intestine, then it leaves through its anus.
What organ helps the earthworm to grind its food?
The gizzard.
