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No food is absorbed by the esophagus, it simply transports food from the mouth to your stomach. The only exception might be alcohol.
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The two structures most plants use to gather nutrients and energy to live are?
Roots to absorb nutrients from the ground and leaves to absorb the suns rays for energy.
What energy does fungi use?
Fungi get their energy from waste materials and decaying organisms. They are able to use hyphae which absorb nutrients in one area. The hyphae will then grow out as a means to absorb other nutrients.
Why does an acorn have a cap?
i think it uses the cap to absorb nutrients from the tree
What are villi and what role do they play in the process of absorption?
Villi are finger-like projections in the small intestine. Their role is to help the body absorb nutrients from the food. The villi are little tiny hairs inside the small intestine that absorb nutrients.
What part of the body absorbs nutrients?
The system in the body that absorbs nutrients is the digestive system. Within the digestive system is the small intestine. When food passes through the small intestine, villi, absorb all of the nutrients the body needs from the food. Villi are small fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase surface area and "reach" out to the food and absorb its nutrients. So, to answer your question, villi that are in the small intestine within the digestive system absorb what nutrients our body needs.
What organ doesn't absorb nutrients?
The mouth is one of the organs of the digestive tract that doesn't absorb nutrients. Another is the esophagus.
A food chute has no digestive or absorptive role?
The esophagus. gullet=food chute. it does not digest things or absorb nutrients and goodies and stuff
Do monera absorb nutrients?
They absorb their nutrients through their cell wall
What happens to nutrients in the esophagus?
Nutrients are neither changed nor absorbed in the esophagus. No digestion occurs in this tube that connects the mouth and stomach.
What are the nutrients that are absorbed in the esophagus?
Nothing
What help nutrients into the blood?
villi in the esophagus help move nutrients into the blood
What helps villi move nutrients into the blood?
Esophagus
What are 2 jobs of roots?
absorb water and absorb nutrients
How does nutrients get from mouth down esophagus?
You break it down by chewing it and while you're doing that, your saliva will help dampen the food. Once it is small enough, you swallow it and it travels down through your esophagus. Your nutrients are absorbed while it travels, not while it is in the esophagus.
How do plants absorb nutrients?
the nutrients pass across the cell membrane
What happens to the nutrients before they leave the small intestine?
The nutrients absorb
What does the colon absorb?
The colon absorbs nutrients, and sometimes contaminants of nutrients.
